Who really won this June 2, 2024? Regarding the democratic simulation, and why the one who won won.

Who really won this June 2, 2024? Regarding the democratic simulation, and why the one who won won. 

Notes from the ground

 Lenin Torres Antonio  

“The whole in the parts, the parts in the whole.” 

Why did the MORENA/PT/VERDE coalition win again, one, because the good work of President Obrador was reflected in the trust of the Obradorista electorate, and without seeing the profiles, approach, or trajectory of the candidates, the majority of the Obradoristas They repeated the cascade vote of 5 out of 5 in 2018, thus we saw how in unison the Obrador candidates repeated the slogans, phrases, and approaches of the narrative of the 4th T., which AMLO coined, the plus of the pending contents of the 4th T, were absent, and their candidates had only to repeat what was well known about what they believe is the 4th Transformation of Mexico, mainly, “the fight against corruption”, “the continuity of social policies”, etc.; two, because MORENA and its allies in the government and positions of popular representation operated in the old PRI style, using the state apparatus to proselytize and finance political campaigns, Veracruz is a clear example of that behavior that contradicts the narrative of the 4th T., “we are not the same”, etc., the bureaucratic structure went to work full time in brigades to ensure the vote in favor of the MORENA/PT/VERDE alliance, a structure mainly made of government officials and workers, We citizens suffered harassment similar to the preachers of the gospel, and, three, because the poor opposition never created its own narrative that proposed an alternative country project to the 4th T, Obradoristas, and its candidates endlessly repeated "the dirty war." “media” that economic power imposed on them in the figure of Claudio X. Gonzales, thinking that this was enough to win the elections, that is why we saw in the presidential debates the pseudo indigenous a falsehood until it became a truth in the Mexican's unconscious, likewise, the other candidates dedicated themselves to repeating that failed strategy, and the absence of their own ideas, proposals to solve the serious problems that Mexican and Veracruz society is experiencing became absent. . This opposition has nothing left but to recognize defeat and accept its mistakes and, if there is intelligence, reinvent itself to continue doing politics.

I believe that these three factors constituted the basis for the triumph of the Obradorism to be repeated in Mexico. I would have liked the electoral competition to have been without the use of public resources or using the bureaucratic structure for partisan electoral purposes, which is why I think that Mexico still fails to move towards a true democracy, and I even believe that political theorists have made a mistake in thinking that there can be an “authentic democracy,” because praxis contradicts any attempt to speak of an authentic democracy, and the use of power leads men to use it to continue in power or obtain power, so let's better normalize the use of the state for partisan purposes because de facto that is what happens and there is no exception. Now, because I believe that majorities are disastrous for democracy, I personally opted for a differential vote, I saw profiles instead of political parties, because I believe that the modus operandi of political parties is the same, and their theoretical basis is Machiavelli in place of Plato, Rousseau, Hobbes, Habermas, Gransci, etc., and we saw how the true Obreroistas who had come from the beginning of the fight with AMLO were replaced by turncoats, mainly former PRI members, who took over vertebra of MORENA, and, were nominated for a popularly elected position, in addition to practicing a democratic simulation to elect their candidates, knowing the Morenista leaders that the quota of power groups had absorbed the majority of the candidacies, likewise, We saw at the last minute the arrival of spontaneous Prianist opposition leaders abandon ship and be welcomed with approval to ensure the “complete bandwagon”, pragmatics prevailed over ideological convictions.

The future that is presented to Mexico is a Morenoism without AMLO, I place the true electoral competition in a future time, since no one "fills AMLO's shoes", and the power clans are well defined, and obtaining the majority will face the demands of the Mexican people who cannot wait for the problem of insecurity, poverty, inequality, lack of public services, etc., to be resolved even in the medium and short term, and is the center of the challenge of this new majority in how it is going to resolve the inequality in the distribution of wealth, which is more than 50% of the GDP in the hands of a tiny economic elite, because even if Mexico becomes China for the United States, at most there will be more job opportunities in the areas where foreign factories are located, but the capital will go to the foreign owners of those companies, economic inequality is the great challenge of this new Morenoist administration, but it can also be its grave. One would think that essentially the people win from the triumph of the Obrador movement, but I think not, the people are secondary, the people are the demagogic word to give emotionality to the political discourse, the real winners are that bureaucracy of leaders entrenched in the government structures and popularly elected positions that celebrate the triumph, and lick their mustaches like our haughty kittens when they see their food, and there are thousands who little by little begin to get rich and become “the new mafia of power”, as in Veracruz, having come from less to more in their properties and purchasing power, the plethora of thieves who accompanied Cuitláhuac and now Norma Rocío Nahle are happy to remain in “fucking power”; Other winners are the businessmen who are Democrats and allies of the 4th T., who know that good times are coming for contracts and perks, and also the chayoteros of the Workplace, who also take their own, and, the people?, with only the promise of maintaining “the assistance programs”, euphemistically called “social”, with those who “alleviate hunger but do not eliminate it”, nor make the future one of a society of economic equals without that insulting unequal distribution of wealth.

I portend a Mexico without Obrador, such as the consolidation of a MORENA as a reissued PRI, and the opportunity for the opposition political parties to make a drastic change in their leadership and to do politics from and with ideas. “Time to time,” as journalist Edgar Hernández would say. June 2024.