Trump will win
Trump will win
A slap in the face from Colombia
Carla Giraldo Duque
Many of you will say he won’t. Many of you are certain that this absurd can never become a reality. Many of you want to believe democracy would never tell a joke so cruel. What? President Trump? President of the United States? No, no, no.
But yes, Trump will win.
Polls said that UK would continue in the EU. And there you have it: a country divided because of the knavery of a populist speech that convinced the masses. Polls said Colombian people would vote “Yes” to the peace. And here you have us: a country divided by the pettiness of some politicians who appealed to the deepest fears of Colombians.
Polls say Hillary will win. But no, Trump will win.
And Trump will win because he is a political animal who knows the same Boris Johnson and Alvaro Uribe know: that in the world of visceral emotions is their triumph, that facts and data are not of the masses’ interests, and that you only have to touch their deepest emotions to obtain from them what is wanted.
They dominate all the forms of fear, and are masters of the hate language. They are experts in lying, manipulating, stoking up passions and dividing us brutally. They are the lords of obscene triumphs.
“Lili, the ‘No’ will win”, I said panicking to one of my closest friends the week before of the plebiscite for the Peace Agreements between Colombia’s Government and the Farc guerrilla. “Are you crazy? Don’t be naive. Who would vote ‘No’? The ‘Yes’ has to win”.
The campaign for the ‘No’ in Colombia has been the dirtiest political move in recent times. Also the cruelest of all as it played with hopes of peace in a country that is been engulfed in a 52 year war. A war that has caused at least 220 thousand Colombian deaths and has forced more than 6 million people to leave their homes. The leaders of the “No” option bet on deceiving and creating terror, and they won. Leer Más