We' re counting ten days for next Sunday' s 19th election. The
candidates are already lying on the street and it is until this weekend the publication
of the poll on Thursday of the week that they come. In a week
political proselytism and political campaign ends in the media. Friday and Saturday will be
days of the coming week of reflection, reflecting on the vote and also Friday
at midnight is forbidden the supply of drinks until Sunday until 5 a m on
Monday. You know that reflection thing on Monday the 20th and that way,
just like I' m going to vote. Well, everybody' s doing
the closet. Everything is taking advantage of it to say who it intends to
vote for. I know a guy who from day one I found ridiculous before,
when I was a teenager, to see journalists and certain communicators show themselves
to be unbiased assumptions and you saw his bias to see from a mile away.
It is one thing to deal objectively with impartial facts is no one.
We' re all partial. The fact that you say, say, you
sympathize with someone or something doesn' t mean that you give up objectivity.
Sometimes I see friends who see in the eyes of the parties what they sympathize
with, and I want to make it clear to someone something that I have
learned from politics has been a culture, a tradition. I' m going
to be called curious to know where this comes from, but part of it,
from the same religious faith. Politics turned into religion is a problem,
because I will set an example. The evangelical Christian says that he follows the
teachings of Christ when he saw that separation between the Catholic Church, the sale
of forgiveness for the soul and those things. And Luther denounced all this sheath
and there is Lutheran reform and there comes that division of the Church. Before
the Church had been divided when the great schism took place, it was divided
between the Orthodox Church in the Catholic Church, and the Church was divided into
sixty- eight thousand and five hundred pieces from its very beginning as a religion.
There is always someone who understands that he has the best version or that
he has the best vision or that his version is the best of all And
he fantasizes about that. I understand that although that is a territory of scholars
in depth of religiosity and all this, I do not believe that politics is
a struggle between bad and good, but between different forms, between different visions,
of how to achieve what people want, that is achieved and that results
in benefits for them. And here, in the Dominican Republic, the Perremeist
believes he grows up and assumes to be better than the Peldeist. But at
one time it was the Peldeists who were assuming and pretending to be the best,
the purest, what made albums of corruption albums, albums of corruption and
distributed them all over the country. I had one of those. I remember
them, as I was six years old. They edited it and everything in
the village was published and there were the names and the names and photos of
what they said, which were the great corrupts of the time in the governments
of the PRD, in the eighties. Being a child, I remember it
and then it would come to the time when balaguerism reformism would take up the
political stage for ten years and the PRD would sell themselves as the good and
the others as the bad. And you see it now, it' s
happening to me, it' s happening. That' s the one.
That' s the way to look at politics. I learned that this is
not about bad and bad and I mentioned it in the year two thousand and
twenty and I repeat them again. This is about interests and maybe in a
small, in a small, very small place. There is perhaps a vision
of how the things that are going to make the country better are going to
be achieved. But politicians are not doing politics for the good of the country,
in the first place, for the sake of the interests they represent and
then interest their own interests. If it' s not the other way around,
then you fight a friend, argue with someone, insult you for two
people who don' t know you, don' t know you, don
' t care about you. I think it' s stupid if I don
' t fight with friends for politics, sports, or every sheath. In
this case, I have a set of ideas that I defend and that I
have and that I consider essential in my thinking. But that' s not
why I' m going to fight someone, because we have different visions about
the direction the country should take. Not because of it, so I think
what you should think more about now what you are going to say, as
there are many people coming out of the closet and saying that I am not
afraid to say that, for example, the sixteen, the nineteen I am
going to vote for Luis a vinader O, that I would not vote,
nor die for Antonio Taveras, that I do not know why Member I am
going to vote in my psicuscription. That' s the reality. So I
think one and I say that my dead is not because he' s a
bad person, or anything like that, is that the ideas he defends are
not aligned with mine. What he represents and has represented in Congress for the
Dominican Republic are things that I consider to be harmful to the country. So,
therefore, I' m not here. Then we have the other option,
which doesn' t do much good either. Then I don' t
know better to throw the nulls on that one, on that ballot. In
my case, look for a known drunk, one who looks like a congressman.
I have maybe two options. Maybe a boat for a rat, then
a vein for you. He' s got a moderate higher, that'
s all. I know just one face of what you' re on that
one, on that ballot. But other than that, I invite you to
take advantage of these days that remain from here and share with your friends,
who may be deist fights, being you of the PRM, because there are
many people who are so passionate. Politics has that. Politics is that,
Party politics is structured as a religion. They fanatize the individual. The individual
sees in the eyes of the pastor or preacher, or the pastor says look.
None of those people you' re aspiring for have anything higher, no
special, no better than you. There are ordinary people. Ordinary people who
plow MPs, who aspire to senators, which are sometimes grosser than you.
Sometimes you move to an election table to vote for one who has less understanding
of the social, economic, political reality, which is the one that you
have the only difference, that he is at the top of the pyramid and
you are the vassal that has to go there and validate it with the vote.
But it' s no better than you. So fight a relative or
get angry with one because they think different. That' s stupid. I
grew up in a house where I was going pa was shovel, warrior,
to the extreme and my mother was a perredeist, sick peñagomist and in my
house the politics was a subject of conflict. Everyone who took the side that
wanted me the command was a bullet screams like daddy. I was a peñacomita,
like Mommy and it didn' t mean that in the bosom of my
house. A subject of conflict, of enmity, of discussion, etcetera.
There came a point where my dad left so much of a reformist boot that
in the 2, 000 he voted for a hippolyte to please my mom.
So I don' t know, I don' t know, but I
think it' s a pending matter that has mainly the yes socially left us
two. For example, it is now in the interests of politicians to polarize.
That' s part of that process. But, for example, now
that there' s talk of new young people being included with another vision of
politics and all that kind of stuff they' re not getting into our heads.
I believe that the fact that you share with your competitor and you see
that there are friends. We have different ideas, we can debate ideas,
but we are not enemies. But it' s really treated as enemies to
death and that' s passed on to the population, it' s passed
on to the followers and so on and so on, so that you see
the different discussions that sometimes end in a fatal way. Well, I think
if you practice with the example, that same thing will be passed on to
your section. If one studies the history of each stage, in history no
matter what system has prevailed. There have always been those who are in favor
and who are against what they believe, what they defend in the best and
what they understand is not. But I believe there is a chapter in the
most recent history in the world, which is what happened in China or what
happened at the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Gives you the idea
of how you can make them. You can give a picture of how,
when you' re convinced that what you' re defending is the best,
that it' s infallible, that it' s not wrong, that it
' s perfect, you can get to commit terrible atrocities. And we'
re getting back to it and maybe we didn' t learn any chapters like
macarism in America, or a lot of chapters in history where out of nonsense,
just to think differently, a lot of people ended up dying and whole
societies destroyed in the dust. So, while politicians are distributing the budget,
taking it out of their pockets or taking it to tax havens, which is
what most people do and I repeat, most politicians who are in the public
service, as ministers, as directors, as senators, deputies, councilors,
mayors, what they are doing is distributing the administration of the state budget to
take some of that tax havens into their pockets. It is not in the
center, you are not as a person, nor is there service to you
as a citizen. So, when you understand that, when you understand the
system, when you understand and understand that, you' re going to stop
fighting because you' re going to say I have nothing at stake. I
' m not getting any benefits. What I want is simply for them to
fulfil their obligations under the law and do so half- way. Why do
I have to go out and fight, go in the trunk with a friend
for the PLD presidential candidate? I don' t have to. Why should
I insult a friend because he understands that Avindera has been the best President in
history, who has not been, but he understands that he believes it.
I don' t have to fight him. I mean, think about it
this week and I come from the last election of like five death threats from
a Perremeist who wrote to me in private to threaten me with death for not
being aligned with the PRM or those who promised me that when the pr arrived,
I was going to know what the PRM was that they were going to
get me out of here or the friends who fought with me, because I
decided to be with Gonzalo because it gave me my damn wish and not with
the prm that we are not friends today, nor are we going to do
it again, because if our friendship depended on us thinking the same way,
because we couldn' t be friends. We can' t be friends if
there was something I' ve always had. That' s what I'
ve got around a lot of people who think very different from me and I
can understand myself and accept that we don' t think the same and then
we respect that way of doing politics, of polarizing and seeing the opposite one
as an enemy doesn' t go with me. You are different thinkers and
we can think diametrically opposite in a different way, but reflect on whether you
are indeed what are at the center of the interests and actions of those you
are willing to take your life with other people. For and not so.
They are lying simulators in the service of your interests and when you understand them,
you will assume this as what is part one thing apart from the other.