They do not understand and fantasize about the campaign

The dilettantes do not fully understand that the circumstances in which the presidential elections of 24 will be held, by the work and grace of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will be years away from those in which the 2018 election was held.

This makes them imagine that, during the presidential campaign, while the President without restrictions, wages war on the opposition and will leave the conciliatory speech to “the corcholata” that wins the Great Poll.

Fantasies assume that Morena will ask for or give quarter. The drums of war are to guide the wise and good people, to defeat the dark conservative forces. They do not understand that “the revolution of consciences” does not negotiate its principles. Get out the umbrellas.

They hardly discover that all politics is local

In Puebla, a few hours after the death of Governor Miguel Barbosa, under the coordination of his widow, local interests took the lead and elected Congress President Salomón Céspedes Peregrina as substitute governor.

Mario Delgado, national leader of Morena, grumbled, because there was no time to follow the script of the National Palace. Marko Cortés, leader of the PAN, called on the Puebla PAN members to support the election. They stayed with the studied gestures.

Everyone, even in the Palace, is just beginning to learn that the once all-powerful PRI, in its golden years, was always a national coalition of local interests and that this is the key to staying in power. The rest, as they say in my land, is “bullshit”.

politically incorrect congratulation

I take advantage of Little Sister Magdeleine’s invitation to “confront the hatred and resentment of the world with the smile of the Child of Bethlehem”, whose birth more than 20 centuries ago we will celebrate tomorrow, for a Christmas greeting.

In a way, I know, but I quote Blaise Pascal: “I’d rather be wrong believing in a God that doesn’t exist, than be wrong by not believing in a God that exists. If afterwards there is nothing, I will never know when I sink into nothing; but if there is Someone, I will have to give an account of my refusal attitude”.

Reason why I wish readers, my colleagues, my friends, their families, that Christmas makes their days and nights light up with the smile of the Child of Bethlehem. Let us accept Dickens’s invitation, to honor Christmas in the heart and keep it throughout the year.

SWIRLING NOTES

When listening to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s morning references to US President Joseph Biden, one wonders if in the very important meeting next January with the tenant of the White House and with Canadian Justin Trudeau, we will break with the Mexican tradition of respectful and educated hosts… Perhaps one sins of wayward, but it seems that the case of the Minister Yazmín Esquivel is a whole carambola of three bands. At the same time… If the Government of the Republic warns of possible blackouts due to the brutal cold wave in the United States that would affect the gas supply. Was nothing learned from what happened when the frost in Texas prevented that supply?… Ah, the new generations. Read at least the notes of the like-minded on the left, so as not to repeat the nonsense that the Acteal massacre 25 years ago was committed by the Army… 25 centuries ago Thucydides left us this immortal phrase: “History is an incessant return to start” …