Two days after...
Mexico's National election we are exactly where we are after every election for the past eighty years. Screaming: Fraude!
For seven decades the people, the candidates and the defeated parties blamed PRI, the incumbant party, for every defeat they suffered. PRI became the symbol in Mexico for corruption, intimidation, vote tampering and outright political assasinations.
Mexico had come to rely on the nefarious PRI as an all purpose excuse for everything wrong in the country. It became systemic, no work, no money, no justice, fucking PRI. No roads, no education, no law, fucking PRI. No fair census, no fair tax collection, no fair zoning laws, fucking PRI.
In short Mexico had it made. Mexicans themselves were able to take no responsibility for anything. Nothing they could do or say. No effort, no organization would help. The population were victims of that fucking PRI.
Now, with PRI running a dismal third and completely out of the picture, Mexico's people need a new excuse. The condition remains the same but the players are different. Who's to blame now? What evil force can we be victims of now? What to do?
What else? Scream: Fraude! That fucking PAN!
Mexicans talk a lot about democracy and its majority rules concept but they really don't trust its outcome. They really don't think the majority knows best.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop (620 - 560 BC)
MEXICO (as I see it):
6:30 AM: I passed a whole family of Indians camped on a residential sidewalk. The younger ones, perhaps five or six in number, were still rolled in blankets, lying side by side, like boxed cigars. An old woman was building a miniature cooking fire in the gutter and her old man was sitting on an inverted plastic bucket, massaging his knee joints.
For seven decades the people, the candidates and the defeated parties blamed PRI, the incumbant party, for every defeat they suffered. PRI became the symbol in Mexico for corruption, intimidation, vote tampering and outright political assasinations.
Mexico had come to rely on the nefarious PRI as an all purpose excuse for everything wrong in the country. It became systemic, no work, no money, no justice, fucking PRI. No roads, no education, no law, fucking PRI. No fair census, no fair tax collection, no fair zoning laws, fucking PRI.
In short Mexico had it made. Mexicans themselves were able to take no responsibility for anything. Nothing they could do or say. No effort, no organization would help. The population were victims of that fucking PRI.
Now, with PRI running a dismal third and completely out of the picture, Mexico's people need a new excuse. The condition remains the same but the players are different. Who's to blame now? What evil force can we be victims of now? What to do?
What else? Scream: Fraude! That fucking PAN!
Mexicans talk a lot about democracy and its majority rules concept but they really don't trust its outcome. They really don't think the majority knows best.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop (620 - 560 BC)
MEXICO (as I see it):
6:30 AM: I passed a whole family of Indians camped on a residential sidewalk. The younger ones, perhaps five or six in number, were still rolled in blankets, lying side by side, like boxed cigars. An old woman was building a miniature cooking fire in the gutter and her old man was sitting on an inverted plastic bucket, massaging his knee joints.
posted by bbuckman | 4:09 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home