The stigma against the
so-called oligarchs (those with high purchasing power) who have led and
governed nations for centuries, and still continue to do so, has at times
generated a collective mistrust that has been used by populists and demagogues
in order to create a negative imaginary against these people.
While it is true that the
oligarchs have failed in many of their economic policies, it has not meant a
destruction of society, but rather, in the name of the economy and the very
abused term of progress, they have been able to carry out political projects
concerning improve trade relations (for their own interests of course) and
maintain, to some extent, social stability.
The opposite has happened to
the populist and demagogic leaders who have portrayed themselves as
revolutionaries, disguised as the much abused term of socialism, or any other
name of an alleged social ideology. These political leaders have led to
disaster, in most cases, entire nations, resulting in hunger and humiliation.
Perhaps because of lack of
experience, education, or whatever bankruptcy they have, a poor person, without
proper political orientation (ideological if you will), cannot but concentrate
social hatred and seize the opportune moment to seize the power and to begin with
the revenge, to say of the sociologists, adding to the terrible persecutions
and bad propaganda of irrational hatred against the poor oligarchs, the
slavery, that generally assume of different forms, and oppression towards the
most vulnerable population, the humble, the working people, and the population
in general.
Result? Once the demagogues
assume power, they show an almost innate ability not to govern, but to destroy
social establishment and democratic institutions in order to maintain the
status quo they never had in their lives, too late for the population who see
an act of betrayal of those whom they saw as a kind of saviors, we do not know
what.
Then, the manifestations
arrive, the deaths also, to ask for a change, hoping to restore that order that
made him hate, but that is necessary. Like the monarchs in the middle ages,
when they dared to expel certain social sectors, such as bankers and merchants
and then call them again, because they realized the need for them, simply so
that social groups, around the economy , could work.
The oligarchs also have
rights, as any have, and one of them is the right to govern without being
stigmatized by the purchasing power they have. The natural tendency to invent
an enemy to attribute the evils of a nation should be to blame the population
for raising resentful leaders to power. The reflection then, is to claim the
oligarchs as one more among the others.
