Politics is over

If we do not accept that politics as we know it is over, then we will have learned nothing from this global health crisis, nor from the thousands of daily deaths that plague humanity. Everything will have been in vain.

Crowned by a virus, after a long agony of more than thirty years, Mrs. Politica Chilena finally collapsed, in the midst of the great health crisis that affects humanity. She alone, prostrate in the corridor of a public hospital, in the capital of the country with the best health system on the planet.

The partisan politics of large coalitions of the left or right is over, that between defending and accepting social inequality have preferred to save themselves; the subsidy policy is over, which empowers private individuals to the point of governing for them; The politics of the elites, which have divided society between rich and poor, are over; The politics of nepotism, of compadrazgo that buries meritocracy, is over; the neoliberal, discriminatory and antisocial policy is over; the politics of power is over, which corrupts and blinds the spirit; union policy is over, which only knows how to see its own navel; The short-term policy is over, which is devastating the planet by overexploiting natural resources as if there were no future; The restrictive policy, which prohibits everything and restricts people’s freedom, is over; the economic policy that segregates people into social classes is over; the politics of having is over; the politics of me, of mine. The opportunist policy is over, of great agreements between four walls, behind the backs of the people and in the name of peace.

The policy that not even in a pandemic put people first is over. It did not go wide, as it always protected economic interests over citizens; It was not supportive, but petty; He showed not to have the financial backs to support us, nor to take charge of the social security that he always promised and never guaranteed, as always each one had to save himself, except the companies that absorbed all the subsidies. The ruling neoliberal system revealed its true mask of individualistic, discriminatory, non-solidary essence, above all unaware of the interests and needs of the people.

Politics as we understand it today is over, period. The Coronavirus showed that the real heroes are not governments, but people. It made our interdependence more than clear, that what happens in China impacts the world and Chile, that all people are made of the same, that we are the same in life and death, that we have more in common than differences, that if we come together we can act as one. That it is time to build a common future, because we are no longer local, but global citizens. A global crisis cannot be approached as an individual crisis, we will only win it collectively and we have proven this. It is time to act together as members of the same society, humanity living in the same world.

What used to look like a mountain is today the size of a lentil. It simply no longer corresponds to expect them to do something for us, but to do it ourselves, and this is not understood as a call to insurrection, but as a new state from which we must live. A conscious and collective state, with others. What are we doing about it? What does it mean to be a Citizen today? What is the role of a Constituent Constituent? What new conscious dimensions should a new Constitution consider? There will be no development or future if it is not sustainable, there will be no citizenship if it does not exercise its power.

What comes next? Wait for the pandemic to pass and return to Plaza de la Dignidad? Reactivate the social outbreak with much more force? How are we to understand this social outburst and social demands? Continue with the plebiscite, the constituent process and the election of the conventional ones? In this new scenario, where politics ended, going back to the same as soon as the fire revives, it does not make the light shine. Returning to the same point is not moving forward, but going back. We must go further, a new collective look is necessary. We are not alone, we never were, we have each other. Waking up is not just opening your eyes. Let the survivors stand up, as conscious citizens and embrace a new Chile, now!

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