{"id":25683,"date":"2007-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/the-pole-is-on-a-losing-streak\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:21:43","slug":"the-pole-is-on-a-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-pole-is-on-a-losing-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pole is on a losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>En el debate pol\u00edtico actual abundan los agravios entre voceros de la oposici\u00f3n y del Gobierno. \u00bfA qui\u00e9n beneficia ese tipo de enfrentamiento? Sin ser un experto en asuntos electorales, creo que sale perdiendo el Polo y voy a explicar por qu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e1s de 40 a\u00f1os de lucha guerrillera no solo han dejado devastaci\u00f3n y muerte en Colombia; tambi\u00e9n han dejado una poblaci\u00f3n que, en temas pol\u00edticos, se debate entre la apat\u00eda y el sesgo hacia la derecha. Por eso, parad\u00f3jicamente, la principal v\u00edctima pol\u00edtica de la guerrilla es la izquierda democr\u00e1tica. <\/p>\n<p>A mi juicio, esto tiene explicaci\u00f3n en la mentalidad del elector urbano colombiano. En primer lugar, en su pragmatismo. Tantos a\u00f1os de violencia han hecho del colombiano medio -en todas las clases sociales- una persona profundamente esc\u00e9ptica -casi c\u00ednica- que se acomoda a las situaciones m\u00e1s adversas. Con esa actitud, termina tolerando a los paramilitares, no porque sean menos despiadados, sino porque dejan trabajar y viajar mejor. <\/p>\n<p>La segunda es su visi\u00f3n simplista del debate pol\u00edtico. Algo as\u00ed como esto: en la mitad est\u00e1n los partidos pol\u00edticos tradicionales que, por lo general, son unos ladrones; a la derecha est\u00e1 el Gobierno, respaldado por los paramilitares, y a la izquierda se encuentra el Polo, respaldado por la guerrilla. Puede ser una imagen distorsionada, pero no por eso es menos efectiva. <\/p>\n<p>El presidente Uribe ha sabido convencer a ese colombiano medio. Su estrategia ha consistido en presentarse como si fuera ajeno a los partidos tradicionales y en hacer ver al Polo como si fuera una organizaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica cercana a la guerrilla. <\/p>\n<p>Para muchos dirigentes del Polo, en cambio, es dif\u00edcil comprender a ese colombiano pragm\u00e1tico y relativamente insensible frente a las violaciones de derechos humanos. Pero deben hacerlo, si quieren llegar al poder. Y para convencerlo, deben adoptar un discurso pol\u00edtico que -al lado de la condena del paramilitarismo, la defensa de los derechos sociales y el antiimperialismo- incluya propuestas sobre seguridad ciudadana, lucha antisubversiva, orden econ\u00f3mico y derechos de propiedad. <\/p>\n<p>Muchos dirigentes de izquierda piensan que abordar estos temas es hacerle concesiones a la derecha. No lo creo. Ninguna visi\u00f3n pol\u00edtica seria puede hacer caso omiso del problema de la seguridad y del orden, menos a\u00fan cuando llega al gobierno. <\/p>\n<p>No es que los dirigentes del Polo no tengan buenas ideas al respecto; s\u00ed las tienen, pero no insisten en ellas. En pol\u00edtica lo que vale no es tanto lo que se dice -como en un tribunal- sino aquello que se recalca. (En ese sentido, creo que algunos dirigentes del Polo se equivocaron al no condenar enf\u00e1ticamente -como s\u00ed lo hizo Carlos Gaviria- los desmanes ocurridos durante la manifestaci\u00f3n contra Bush, el pasado domingo 11.)<\/p>\n<p>El intercambio de agravios que vemos hoy en d\u00eda hace parte de esa costumbre nacional que consiste en acusar al opositor de tener alianzas con el actor armado m\u00e1s cercano. En esa disputa, el Polo tiene todas las de perder. Sus denuncias sobre la paramilitarizaci\u00f3n del Estado nunca le dar\u00e1n tantos votos como los que pierde con las acusaciones que recibe por su supuesta simpat\u00eda con la guerrilla.<\/p>\n<p>El fortalecimiento de la democracia en Colombia depende, en buena parte, de que la izquierda democr\u00e1tica se convierta en una verdadera alternativa de poder. Cuando eso suceda, tendremos una derecha m\u00e1s seria y m\u00e1s decente. En busca de ese objetivo, el Polo deber\u00eda preocuparse por captar el voto del colombiano medio. Para ello no basta con estar alejado de la guerrilla. Es necesario, adem\u00e1s, aparecer como tal. <\/p>\n<p>Esa actitud no solo es \u00e9ticamente aceptable; tambi\u00e9n es pol\u00edticamente rentable. \u00bfQu\u00e9 m\u00e1s se puede pedir para adoptarla?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author insures that the strengthening of the Colombian democracy depends, in good part, on the democratic left becoming a true alternative of power and in this way, calls to worry about the medium voter.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-tiempo-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Pole is on a losing streak - 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