Populism as a way of gaining power has a long journey in history. From the emperors who handed out bread and denarius in the circus games, to economic assistance policies and the promises of facilities to a certain population group, together with different discursive and rhetorical techniques, who detain power as well as those who aspire to it, have managed to capture the vote of large population sectors for the benefit of their goals.
The populist political parties that appeal to flat emotions, engarmed by empty speeches whose ultimate purpose is to say without saying anything truly, are the kinds of speeches that handle the political scene in most parties worldwide.
One of the most violent cases of populism is Latin America, Argentina to be precise, where social aid is so excessive that it has managed to corrupt citizen morality at the level of perverting the family institution.
A large percentage of the forty-four million inhabitants of the country live solely and exclusively from state assistance. The large villas of the Conurbano are crowded with cheap and recalcitrant populism in which citizens sell their souls to the devil for a few pesos. And that is how you get not only the votes in the election but the presences in the marches of few political parties - mainly from the left - led by characters who never saw action in the private sector since they lived and will live, directly or indirectly from the state.
The family unit has been corrupted and is not succeeding in fulfilling its task. Education is barely being edold to educational institutions (if children attend to one). This leads to a generational problem that is affecting the present but to a greater extent affect our future because it will be them, the populous and cephalic mass, that tomorrow will depend on us and whom we will have to maintain. This vicious cycle can be Latin America's round of grace if governments continue with cheap policies.
Children without education, without manners, without any training. Human beings without affection or care, who usually live in the squalor villas, where if they obtain an excellent and of the highest quality training in thefts, consumption of narcotics and in the most immoral disciplines.
The theoretical training they can receive in educational institutions (if they can be called that way) is miserable, and many of the families do not support their children for several reasons: the main one is that they do not dream of anything else. They do not dream of moving forward and progress in life to live in a more comfortable way, because they focus on the simple idea that they are poor and that they can live moderately comfortable with state assistance. Secondly, parents, lacking training and encouraged to do so, do not encourage their children to continue their studies. Teenagers end up with so-called "malas juntas" (an expression use to describe when you get arround with bad people) that would derail and deform them, dragging them into the void of vagrancy and bad way of living.
When governments interrupt in the sacred family institution, the deviations they produce have a direct negative impact on the development of the homeland itself. But when the personal interests of those who govern us are at risk, there is no brake point on their actions.
What kind of future do we reveal for ourselves and our children?
