Accents
Diego Petersen Farah
31/10/2009
. In politics as in naval warfare, the important thing is not the size of the missile but where it hits. When the strike is below the waterline, is mortal. The issue of the sneakers of Andrés Manuel junior, which might seem insignificant, trivial, unimportant and even exaggerated by the media, glued to the political project of López Obrador where it hurts most: credibility. And credibility, like virginity, you only lose once, with the difference that losing credibility is nothing enjoyable or fun.
Of course, not the tennis theme, or brand or what they cost, or even who who pump pump shoes. It is a matter strictly symbolic. The policy is made representations. It is primarily a staging, and Andrés Manuel knows like nobody else. Peje photo with poor old woman crying on his shoulder is a representation of hope for those who have nothing, the picture of Andrés Manuel with the garland of flowers and hugging a child while looking at the sky is the staging of confidence in a better future, the picture of Lopez Obrador leading the way or rally is staged leadership, firmness, Conduction Pejejunior photo with a $ 800 tennis left a rally to protest the tax reform and denouncing the high salaries of politicians representing the incongruity , frivolity, and deceit.
What came next was the water that came through the gap misilazo: Facebook photos corroborated that the interpretation of frivolity and inconsistency were correct: not only lives just like those who criticize his father in every speech, but also it boasts. The treatment of servants, as revealed is the Twitter messages is the same as any child would rather de las Lomas Mexico, Monterrey and San Pedro in Colinas de San Javier in Guadalajara. Worse, it is precisely the behavior that the left had expected and criticism of the children of Vicente Fox and Martha Sahagun. Touché.
The emblematic case of the construction of representations is the roqueseñal. When I tried first to Roque Villanueva I found a completely different person to the social image that had been built around him. One economist smart, nice and fine manners he had nothing to do with the image he built the picture of a vulgar Roque, atrabancado and gross. The photograph on the front page of La Jornada, together with the information that the VAT was increased from 10 to 15 percent, became the representation of all Mexicans rape and Rep. Villanueva was the living image of the politician rapist. That ended his career could not be a candidate for anything because the picture would destroy it. The same applies to photos of junior López: there is no way in the next election to which this Andrés Manuel López Obrador photos of your child with tennis of the new rich, or on the yacht with two girls in bikini, do not become the center of the campaign.
The juniors are a difficult issue for politicians. From the pride of nepotism López Portillo, from Miguelito de la Madrid, the son of Zedillo and the presidential couple, the foxit and sahaguncitos (Salinas brothers was so disastrous that no one remembers the children) have all starred media scandals at some point. The reason is simple: if the adults, even those who seem most psychologically balanced, get dizzy with power, for the children the dizziness is much higher. Not have elements to process and distinguish what they are and what is the political position and ending, inevitably, drunk with power.
A child does not have to share the ideas of his father. Are independent, with different formations at different times. Indeed, how strange would be fully shared way of seeing the world. This is not to leave the Pejejunior to say that what you say El Peje higher ball nonsense. If he does not believe, as it seems, republican austerity in mediocrity Juarez who preaches his father, there is no problem. There are children of entrepreneurs who believe that their parents do is to exploit the people and leaders are sons of workers (and labor leaders) whose only ambition in life is to imitate what they call operators. That is, Andrés Manuel junior has every right to live as you want, think and want and demand respect for their privacy. But not the way of thinking and living of the child so they will sink to López Obrador, is the representation and the symbolic world does not matter if it is false or true.
All politicians in the family have their Achilles heel, Andrés Manuel is no exception. Politicians, such as fish, die by the mouth. El Peje, paradoxically, may die by the feet, sneakers, because hardly lift it.
