Vanguard and the government of President Gabriel Boric – Then24.com

In every political project there is a quota of expectations. In this next government of President Gabriel Boric there is a lot, because large sectors of the population believe that certain aspects of society can change radically. After many years of experiencing the structural legacy of the dictatorship, the Chilean citizenry effectively wants things to change, especially in the face of Sebastin Pieras government, a government that definitely did not have the capacity to govern this country.

However, as can be seen in recent world and Latin American history, always in projects of the (radical) left, mainly, they create expectations that when they become a government they end up being diluted. I think this is a propitious moment (more than necessary) to lower expectations about the next government to avoid frustrations a posteriori (which surely there will be). For example, on the issue of security or irregular migration, I dont think there are substantive changes in that matter (in fact, irregular migration can only be managed in a better way, because the flows will continue unless President Nicols Maduro is deposed). in Venezuela, something difficult at the moment), which can create a big flank for the government if it is not able to solve that problem. Chilean citizens not only suffer from business oppression verified in excessive highway charges, housing prices, environmental pollution, etc., but also from assaults resulting in death, kidnappings, the installation of tents in public squares. , shots of houses in the center of Santiago, etc. In addition to the feeling of abandonment of peripheral Chile such as Iquique, Colchane or Antofagasta, who had to wait more than a year for Minister Delgado to pay attention to his demands.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, behind the project of the new government is latent the old avant-garde idea, which gives this group the responsibility of enlightening the population to help them with their problems. A central element for the vanguard in its privileged epistemology is the suffering of the population at the hands of some form of oppression, which apparently in the next government is verified in the businessmen, the political right and the current institutionality inherited of the civic-military dictatorship. The mission, therefore, is to counteract this oppression to make a more just Chile and for everyone, without exclusion. However, today, the citizenry is much more complex, diverse and not necessarily leftist (some voted for Boric just so that Kast was not elected) or agree, for example, with inclusive language. And that is not why it is wrong or deceived by the system. They simply have other visions different from the avant-garde.

In a way, the vanguard is also reflected in the current Constitutional Convention, where there are members who distill presumption of academic knowledge in which they are revealing the true dynamics of reality, unlike the rest that have not had access (citizens). This is observed a lot in some Chilean universities: small university spaces transformed into vanguards, in which critical thinking abounds in a kind of (neoliberal) competition for who is more critical of the group, at the same time not accept any type of answer that is not what they want to hear. Spaces that have that normative ideal of what should be done in Chile to overcome its endemic problems. In practice, this avant-garde is not very different from the Chicago technocrats of the dictatorship (or from the current Economics faculties) who tried to impose a particular economic school (neoclassical) such as Economics (with capital letters).

In my opinion, the previous paragraph is relevant because these same vanguard academics are collaborating with the next government, as well as with the Constitutional Convention. In addition, I have observed that some of them are awarded Fondecyt projects. In this regard, a simple question: Is there not some kind of incompatibility between the responsibility of running a government portfolio and a research project that demands a lot of work in parallel?

By virtue of the foregoing, from my point of view, the next Chilean political scene, even though its main actors want to say the opposite and President Boric changes his residence to the Yungay neighborhood to be closer to the people, presents a clear elitist bias (in reality when Chilean politics has not been!), because in the end what is true or good for the country is according to the perspective of the avant-garde, in short.

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