Without us there is no democracy. For too long has circulated the poisonous idea that citizens can not change anything, that an individual can not fight the big corporations and economic interests with impunity decide that democracy becomes market. For too long we have believed that politics is something that happens outside of us, as if each of our actions were not governed by it. Favored even several generations away from the political consciousness with the disastrous consequences this has for the future of a country. For too long we have introduced the virus of the discredit of the systems parliament until the disease has spread, as if we had not learned anything from the historical times in which something similar has happened. For too long we have partaken of the feast of corruption, the silent, opportunism because we made do with the crumbs that fell from the table of the powerful.
We have been accomplices.
We made do and the consequences have been clear: our silence we have been delivered into the hands of those interests that benefit most from our passivity that our participation in each of the acts that make democracy.
Oldest The Acequia readers know that I do not blame both politicians and society of the current situation. After all, politicians are a product of this society: the best of them are expressions of the inertia more obvious, the worst are those who, with the permission of all, work for foreign interests to the public good. There are few who are saved because ciudanos also few who are saved. A society that loses momentum for democratic participation, which fits when things are going so well that no matter who gets angry only when it has no financial capacity to pretend to be rich and anesthetized with leisure, which is encouraging corruption or even voting claim to those who have consented to, a society that wants to be democratic because democracy requires daily effort, deserves the politicians they have.
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