Ricardo Pascoe Pierce
Morena has achieved the unexpected: it has turned its administration into a grotesque horror movie. The horror began with its eagerness to destroy all of the country’s institutions, yet without the capacity to build new or better ones. Therein lies the tragedy of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which has been turned into a circus ring where the incompetent vie with one another to demonstrate their absolute lack of knowledge and seriousness. Laws do not govern Mexico, much less the Constitution. What governs are the whims of nine empowered individuals whose worldview is reduced to a dubious, microscopic intelligence.
The destruction of the country’s institutions was accompanied by the imposition of a string of “ideals” that turned out to be a crime novel. They said they would not steal, betray, or lie; yet they engage in all three every day. López Obrador began this way with his morning press conferences, and Sheinbaum has continued down the same path. Their governing agenda consists of undermining the credibility of the spoken word so that societal distrust in the validity of agreements takes hold. Once statements and agreements are rendered meaningless, the only thing that will work and hold any probative value will be the use of force—the brute force of the state, through the manipulation of the justice system, and, if that is not enough, the use of bayonets.
Nothing curbs the destructive urges of the most basic and primitive impulses of the Morena rulers. Impunity is their realm. They engage in lies, theft, and treason, and absolutely nothing happens. In fact, they are applauded when they approve the violation of constitutional laws and ethical standards. They do it because they can, and nothing happens.
The Morenistas, starting with López Obrador and Sheinbaum, have created a system of government where the only rule that applies is the one dictated by competition—but among themselves. One steps on the other to gain an advantage in appropriating public assets, with the sole purpose of converting them into private ones. It is a frantic race among Morena members, competing to see who can accumulate the most wealth the fastest. They know that state wealth is finite and can run out, just as their reign on this earth can also come to an end. They are terrified of limits, especially the limits reality imposes on them. Just as babies do not understand limits, neither do the Morenistas. Boundless greed is the hallmark of the party.
They managed to crush and pacify the opposition. They lured some opposition members into their ranks to share in the feast of the progressive and planned dismantling of the Mexican state. Their dream is to keep borrowing, using PEMEX as collateral, because their economic model is to usurp all economic power to buy electoral support and benefit themselves from the falsely projected image of a state teat that is always full and ready to satisfy everyone’s “small” needs. Their economic proposal is not to create prosperity and foster greater wealth for all. Instead, they propose using existing wealth to control society and foster dependence on social programs. Individual initiative is discouraged, branded as “bourgeois.” Everyone must depend on the state. That, according to the Morena governance manual, is the ideal state of society.
For that reason, the alliance with drug cartels is ideal. The cartels inject new resources into “State activity” (read: funding for the election campaigns of Morena candidates) while instilling fear and obedience in society. With the opposition silenced and dismantled, the great task remains of turning the country inward, turning its back on the rest of the world. “Don’t mess with the drug traffickers—they’re ours” seems to be the slogan of Mexico’s new ruling power.
It is precisely because of this ambition to build an autarky (ridiculous in the era of the USMCA, by the way) that Mexico’s ruling elite is so annoyed by interference from abroad. Washington is an extreme aggravating factor. A die-hard Morena activist put it very well: “What do those Hitlerians think they’re doing…?” The truth is that the greatest fear of our ruling Morena elite is the influence and impact those “Hitlerians” could have on the course of upcoming political and legal events in Mexico.
Let’s remember that the origin of the current crisis in the Mexican State, which has split Morena’s leadership, stems from the same thing: a simple indictment issued by an obscure office in southern New York.
@rpascoep
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