In the 32 months that this administration has left, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is going through three constitutional changes that are not insignificant: the energy counter-reform, the dismantling of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the militarization of public safety.
What we need to take for granted from the three presidential initiatives is that their banks will stick to it just as López Obrador sends them, that the three issues are clearly opposed by the rest of the parties that are not part of the 4T and that everything will the presidential power is used to move the emotions of his supporters to drive those changes.
Social polarization was López Obrador’s best campaign weapon and today it is his best government tool. A divided, angry, confrontational society will understand less about reasons and much more about emotions. And as long as there is more that supports his regime, the arguments will not be necessary.
In the ongoing discussion of energy counter-reformation, there are no technical arguments to defend the initiative because they lost that debate. But it does not matter, because what is sought is to evoke emotions of ideological empathy in the followers of López Obrador.
So now the President is going to undertake a national tour to fill public squares and move his audiences with emotional speeches, there, among his followers and in the monopoly of his words.
We have in our newspaper El Economista a very good tool to fully understand it. The #AMLO tracking poll by Consulta Mitofsky, which measures the popularity of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has a breakdown by segments that makes it possible to see clearly where the areas of most influence for its movement are.
Social sectors with less education have a higher approval of the President compared to citizens with university education and higher. Professionals and businessmen have a clear disapproval of the presidential performance compared to smallholder farmers where almost nine out of 10 approve it.
The federal government is not interested in a debate of arguments in the energy counter-reform. He also has no interest in the fact that there is a logic in the strategy he maintains against the INE to discredit it after conducting the “Withdrawal of Mandate” consultation.
It all has to do with generating emotions, making people angry and confronting them. That his followers repeat and believe that businessmen, and even more so if they are foreigners, want to end the CFE and sell electricity expensively, and that the INE hinders democracy because some of its directors are not democratic.
Maneuvers are under way so that his followers applaud the militarization of the National Guard and now leave virtually any activity that used to be a civilian matter in the hands of the Army.
Without ceasing to argue with arguments, data and reasons in the small circles that are clearly far from the heart of the social base of the 4T, it is necessary to understand where this regime continues to aggravate emotions and by what means it promotes it.
Because if polarization is of any use, it is to create a wall between social classes and correct the idea that there are Mexican opponents and Mexicans of the good people.
Maneuvers are under way so that his followers applaud the militarization of the National Guard and now leave virtually any activity that used to be a civilian matter in the hands of the Army.
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Bachelor of Communication Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with a specialization in finance from the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico and a master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Anahuac.
His professional career has been devoted to various media. He is currently a columnist for the newspaper El Economista and news anchor on Televisa. He is the owner of the 14:00 newsroom on Foro TV.
He is a specialist in economic-financial issues with over 25 years of experience as a commentator and host on radio and television. He was part of companies such as Radio Programas de México, where he participated in GDP business radio. He was also part of the management and talent team of Radio Formula.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx