Raptors. The definition of defeats and victories. The eclipse Jabulani. I was told that a day like today, if not update this blog, you should bury it forever in a grave without a headstone, forgotten in time. It is probably true and probably the reason why I'm forcing myself to write.
This Sunday we had the first real contest with real numbers, in this presidential race. The award was not much: the radical Committee of the province of Buenos Aires. But it is not little at a time in which all are hungry for political definitions. Every journalist of every newspaper that is published in the country, either on paper or online, is similar to those condors cruising the cloudless sky with a few fluttering Cuyo deep, watching with eyes trained every detail of what happens on the ground. This is how, from any word, gesture or murmur that tracks (or seems to tracks) possible political definitions by the rush and tear candidate speeches, the texts, to pick up some words and take them to their nest , decontextualized, dismembered, as food for their young. No, not condors. The condors fly high and lonely. The more accurate picture would be the chimangos, flying at medium altitude and usually in groups. But the damage is done.
Here, at last, we were making real food. A good meal with all the ceremony. The list publicly supported Ricardo Alfonsin won against the list on the Vice President Julio Cobos. 58% to 42%, an enormous difference if we take into account that the losers from the traditional UCR while space is presented as Alfonsin faction of "change." Our dear chimangos
rushed like piranhas on goldfish and what remained after the transfer to the nest and the digestion is the conclusion that he had won Alfonsín Cobos. Now, finally, can fight head to head. I think this is an exaggerated opinion indigestion. While Alfonsin played all or nothing fully support the election and even "fighting" radical with the other arm, Cobos was isolated from the race. Any link, actually appeared in the classic news conditional sentences were not serious but could be related to the vice president with the loser list. In this way, win or lose is not affected at all because it was kept as the instance that is beyond the provincial conflict and stressed that, of course, his image as a national subject. Alfonsin, however, could lose and be buried in the manner already discussed above. Or not, given the time needed for the elections and how little people care about these short-scale electoral bodies.
Alfonsín winner, with a forgotten element in the political public image: the cigarette.
(photo by Diego Waldmann)
But he won his list, compared to the astonishment of all, and now all chimanguerío will be attentive to everything I say or do Alfonsin, in this strange relationship in which the same media attention gives public exposure to an individual who allegedly has the attention given his public exposure. Cobos can not be considered a defeat, but that leaves us with a debt of losers. Who were humiliated that afternoon Sunday? The answer has to be Leopoldo Moreau and Federico Storani, referring to the traditional UCR linked to Cobos. They are the provincial old guard, who were next to Alfonsin father but who are now suffering their offspring. Of course, I do not think that will arise who define the profile of the game but lose to a "new" local is a hard blow to the groin. The reasons can be many and many people are inclined to say that the similarity between father and son and the nostalgia of the population are the major causes of this phenomenon. But I think this internal gave these results both Alfonsin's a good campaign but a poor campaign and Storani Moreau, who may have believed that the fight would to be simpler. Only 120 thousand to 800 thousand radical party members were to vote, so probably many of these missing people are not mobilized by the list of "traditionalist", but that they had voted. Gone
everything and Alfonsin, as expected, called for unity in all directions: smarmy, socialists, Carrie ... Signs are already emerging in the social networks that proclaim a
Alfonsin - Binner 2011. It's strange, because a year ago or more I thought it could be a possible list Cobos-Binner. The big problem I see in this wide call for the unity of what they call the Civic Agreement (which sadly reminds us to pastiches such as the Alliance), that I can not understand, is the approach to Carrio. Nothing good can come to associate with someone whose political capital is constantly given their tendency to wear constantly changing political alliances and friendships. Repels more than it can bind and, I believe, what might provide votes.
But nothing matters. NOTHING! Because in a few days the World Cup starts and is going to build a big black hole in politics and we'll all be paying attention only to the parties to the tune of "wooo oooo oo oo, oo ooo oooo oo uwooo, When I Grow Older, I Will Be Strong ...". I've been in Johannesburg at age 10 in 1995 I remember many things, among them being yo-yo playing beside a bonfire night at a dinner in the middle of the savanna of Kruger National Park, surrounded by an electrified fence to ward off wild animals. I remember the mountains of gold dust next to mine and new highways, and I remember the fear of white people out at night because blacks "were taking revenge for years of apartheid." 15 years past and it seems like yesterday. 15 years and those names sounded familiar to me now are on everyone's lips.
Finally, the World Cup, as the election occurs every four years. Since I can not vote given my Israeli citizen yet, I will exercise my other civil right and as a good citizen, I will get lost in the multitude of flags to disappear until within a month, when the eclipse generated by the new ball Jabulani dissipate entirely and we can look directly back to the harsh reality policy.
Eclipse Jabulani