The charlatan

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I was outraged. No, It was much more than that., I was furious, angry and wanted to record it before the audience. A government that has no responses to an extreme emergency situation, as was the case, It is a government that does not serve the needs of its citizens., he said in a harsh tone, grave, challenging, Yeah, almost rough, even for him. And that couldn't be, insisted. It was completely unsustainable at this point.. For now, It seemed unacceptable to him that they were not able to coordinate. That was the first, coordination. Without that coordination, considered it impossible to undertake an action plan that was even remotely coherent. Then, and this seemed most obvious to him, This action plan had to be agreed upon with the competent authorities in the matter.. Without consulting highly qualified technicians, it was almost unlikely that anything would end well.. There was a space for politics and another for experts. Yeah, it's true, They are not common territories and, sometimes, Political interests could radically diverge from what was dictated by specialists in a specific sphere., since politics concerned a much broader space than that of those whose knowledge was focused on that specific area, whatever it was. But that doesn't mean the opposite should happen.. It was about maintaining a reasonable balance between both extremes so that the knowledge of some compensated for the patent ignorance of others on the issue.. But much more important, especially in the case at hand, It was the need to have adequate means to undertake actions proportional to the severity of the threat they were currently facing.. And to have these means, It seemed more than evident that the first thing was to direct financial resources towards them (that is to say, public, he emphasized) appropriate. Without ever losing sight of the final balance of payments, It seemed absolutely unforgivable that, given the circumstances, This was not an absolute priority.. If it turns out that, finally, The public does not put the general interest before the particularities of political parties or certain sectors with greater or lesser influence, so, what was the use? From here, The logical thing was to prepare a complete map of the situation. Without that global vision, It seemed almost chimerical that the crisis would be attacked from parameters that would enhance and address the use of those available resources in a rigorous manner.. So, and only then, if this condition was met, the different aspects of the problem could be faced separately and effectively. To do this, it wasn't necessary either, in the background, great waste of wisdom, a little common sense was enough, although of course, as everyone knows, Sometimes that common sense could become the least common of all the senses.. In case all this was not enough, that's what the international establishments were for. Or what was the point of belonging to institutions that did not come to your rescue?, precisely when they were most needed? All this package of measures together, would bring us closer, It is not known whether a final solution to the conflict, but they would certainly put things in a very, but very different. However, It seemed obvious that none of this was in the heads of our rulers, more interested in their public image than in finding that solution that they talked about and what the population was waiting for.. But what bothered him most was not that, having all the weapons at your disposal, the government was not capable of drawing up this simple course of action that even someone as layman in the matter as him was capable of drawing up.. The worst thing was the words with which they were trying to make public opinion dizzy., mere subterfuges of the purest marketing and political propaganda, pure talk, rhetoric without the slightest content. We are ruled by charlatans, the commentator protested. But this last, she no longer listened to him. I had turned off the radio, bored. GERARDO LEON

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