At some point in our lives we have made the following reflection: "so many things to do and so little time to do them", and in the midst of that we have been frustrated to see that there is only one resource that cannot be bought or replaced by any other: time. For us, Venezuelans, who are structurally made for instantaneous enjoyment, it is very difficult and even impossible to digest that there are things that can only be obtained if time and effort are dedicated to them.
That special characteristic of our people, in itself, is neither good nor bad. It simply is. On the negative side, it has produced the most abject corrupt people in the contemporary history of the world, who have robbed the coffers of this country to the unimaginable, making an instant fortune. And on the positive side, it has produced heroes of a stature that cannot be explained, except by the vocation to obtain immediately what would be impossible for any rational human being to achieve, for example, the independence of 5 nations, in the shortest period of time in the history of the world.
However, this characteristic frustrates us as a people when we are presented with a problem that can only be solved in the long term, since we are individuals built to enjoy instantaneous achievements and satisfactions. We Venezuelans were happy for many years when, for the simple fact of enjoying a fortune that was not worked, but extracted from the subsoil, we applied it to solve even the smallest problem with money, even if we wasted the money and it was not solved.
Venezuelans do not conceive of the long term. We are and expect results in the short term of any problem we face, or any issue we undertake. And we also transfer this to the political field. It is impossible for a politician seeking the votes of anyone in this country, not to offer something that does not give results immediately: "... I will fix health and education if you vote for me", although we all know from deep inside, that this is impossible, preferring self-deception, rather than accepting that this problem requires constant work, plans and dedication for much more time than that politician has at his disposal. In other words, we prefer to consciously allow ourselves to be deceived than to accept that it is necessary to change our way of being in order to solve the problem.
Knowing this context, the idiosyncrasy of this noble people, anyone seeking a solution to the most important political problem we have faced as a country after Venezuela's war of independence will have to square the circle. That is, to make compatible the solution of a problem that in itself has become a long-term problem -the tyranny of Nicolás Maduro Moros- with a people that expects a short-term solution. The result of everything that has been tried so far, in short-term solutions, has been frustration, hopelessness, exodus and paralysis.
And if we add to all this a regime that is perfectly aware of its context, it is clear that getting rid of it will become increasingly difficult. The late Dr. Rosa María Zulueta, an extraordinary Venezuelan social psychologist (see in Spanish Rosa María Zulueta, ciudadana integral in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2017/03/rosa-maria-zulueta-ciudadana-integral.html) indicated that this strategy of domination had produced "breakdowns of logic, hopelessness, helplessness, uncertainty, frustration, resentment, toxic rage, paranoia and reactivity".
And as a consequence of all the above, sick Venezuelans felt the most perverse effects: "evasion, procrastination, habituation, resignation and paralysis". All this made us sabotage ourselves with these three weapons, which I would now call weapons of mass destruction: "Fear, psychological resistance to change and distrust". These three things can summarize what Venezuelans are feeling at the end of this year 2022.
When in my previous notes I recalled the proposal of an Indefinite Electoral Strike, to be applied by Venezuelans to anyone who would offer us to use the sacred instrument of democracy, which is the vote, to oppose it to a disgusting tyranny, I did not do so with the intention that this form of struggle would "remove the regime" tomorrow, which is what I intended to do, and to hold primary elections to decide a "candidate" to go to new elections with the regime in power, I did not do so with the intention that this form of struggle would "remove the regime" tomorrow, which is what Venezuelans naturally expect, given their natural way of being, as we have already pointed out.
I did it because that is one of the many non-violent ways to resist and sabotage any attempt to NORMALIZE TIRANY. If the regime is going to extend its power here because the opposition surrendered for a thousand reasons, either because they were paid for it, or because they wish to cohabit in power with them, that does not have the backing of the votes of Venezuelans. Read this well: if you are going to vote for a candidate of the supposed opposition in these primaries, you are accepting from that very moment that this supposed candidate will go to face the regime at the moment Maduro decides it, and under the conditions he imposes.
If you believe that this candidate, coming from a group of parties, who without representing anyone, went to negotiate our future in Mexico, in a dialogue that the regime has already considered cancelled because they got what they were looking for, is going to fight with us in a long term struggle that this same opposition has given up for lost, because they are precisely trying to measure themselves electorally with the one who has control of the machines that count the votes, you have not seen the whole picture, You have not seen the whole picture, and you are falling into the trap that the regime and its opposition expect you to fall into, given your natural structural inclination to expect a short term solution.
Let this proposition be well understood: there is no short-term solution to Venezuela's problem. We must understand and internalize that all known levers have been destroyed and that new solutions are required, which we must all work out together, and weave them one step at a time, with a defined, constant and persistent direction. And the first idea that we must all get into our heads is that it is not possible to use the mechanisms of democracy to get rid of a tyranny.
Whatever we do from now on must be aimed at demonstrating, without any possibility of doubt, that Venezuelans, without the intermediation of any force delivered to the regime, are determined to continue resisting, until the regime falls. That requires genuine organization and leadership, but above all constancy. That it is possible for that to happen if we adapt with great effort to control our natural tendency to expect short-term results for a reward of much greater value in the long term: freedom. That is definitely a challenge for Venezuelans aware of this reality, if we take the civic struggle in that new time frame. Only then will we have a chance to succeed.
Caracas, December 14, 2022
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