The More Things Change

The More Things Change

By: Erreh Svaia

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

Malcolm X

Why is it that apparently politically incorrect figures like Alexis Tsipras, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump are suddenly gaining so much ground in the political circles in their countries? Are their populist policies coming from the extremes of right and left wings finally showing real solutions to the situation in their nations? Dangerously high social spent and anti-immigration policies doesn't seem to be the answers to the recurrent crises of our times.

In France, Francoise Hollande and the socialists lose ground to Le Pen and her ultra-right wing leanings, in order to counteract this, well known Nicholas Sarkozy is brought back into the political stage, but rumors of middle east dictators financial backing on his previous campaign could sink him gas in the middle of society current mixed up feelings toward migration.

After Syriza's Alexis Tsipras recently announced resign as prime minister of Greece, leaving the people of this country to decide between Tsipras empty promises and the traditional politicians, corrupt and irresponsible that precipitated Greece current situation from the beginning.

Hard to believe that in the so called land of the free, a violent and intolerant character like Donald Trump is leading the pre candidate polls and becoming more popular than any of the other Republican Party candidates, it seems that people are not only tired of moderate conservatives, but also of Democrats and any other common politician in general, people want a radical departure in politics even though it could mean literally jumping from the cliff, welcome to Amerikistan!

As in the rest of the world, in Mexico you can blame no one else for populism rise, except traditional politicians, is their fault that by not offering more efficient solutions to economic distress, they have laid the perfect template for radical and demagogues to stand on, is not the triumph of the populists policies, is the failure of traditional politics, and while closeted authoritarian Andres Manuel Lopez gains momentum, major parties like the PRI sets the course towards the party's dictatorial past and gets closer to the PRI-government, while the presidents announces changes in his office, we found out that is more of the same, no “in´s” or out´s”, just a game of changing chairs; This while the PAN (the right wing party) tries to mask their corruption infected political base and the desperate PRD (the left wing party) searches for an outsider to lead a party that has not been able to lead itself, welcome to Mejikistan! And welcome to some of our own worst nightmares, as we are immersed in the middle of a global conspiracy aimed to destroy our incipient democracies and install iron fist authoritarian regimes with fear as its principal weapon, these days with the arrival of horrible beyond nightmares things like the Islamic State it’s obvious that people will prefer ruthless dictators like Gadhafi or Hussein to extremists like Al Qaeda or IS, that works in favor of conspirators, as we are pushed into a battle to escape brainwashing, and to paraphrase Malcolm X, to try to save ourselves from end up loving the oppressor.