“Luxury is vulgarity …” A overwhelming definition of the Rounds now endorsed by the decadent celebration of Jeff Bezos’s marriage. The gondolas and the Renaissance palaces witnessed that impute ostentation of the power of a single person. Jeffrey Preston Bezos’ fortune could more than the outrage of so many Venetians who felt as a humiliation that the city was rented for a private party.
The world spent days witnessing a farandulous show. With chroniclers who highlighted luxury and glamor, empathizing with excess personal power over the inhabitants of a city that, for three days, ceased to be citizens of Italian democracy to be subjects of the rising phenomenon: the megamillonarios.
Literature and filmography begin to account for the plutocratic process generated by magnates that knead fortunes in the field of advanced technologies and, with them, redefine the reality of power in countries and in the world. The portrait they coincide in showing is disturbing. Screenwriters and creators such as Jesse Armstrong, author of the Succession series and the Mountainhead film, have a look worried about the magnitude of the power of individuals that remain above the states, lacking social knowledge and a human formation that contains their drives and makes them conduct with responsibility the gravitation they exert on societies and people.
Part of the same phenomenon are the magnates that jump to the political arena to personally handle states, such as Donald Trump and also his now political partner Elon Musk. The only limit that the richest man found in the world were not the institutions of American democracy, but the jealousy and the offended ego of the millionaire that occupies the oval office. No printed shirts, gorrites and star prominence. In the White House, all with sack, tie and quiet before the only star: the president.
Now, although the dominant phenomenon is the rise of megamillionaires and ultraconservative leaders who idolize them, the forces that are weakening liberal democracy are not unidirectional. Societies that first engenders Left anti-system leaders, then engendered right-wing anti-system leaders. Similarly, societies that produced ultra-conservative governments could, after wear and disappointment that generate, engender governments anti-system of the left, provided that a leader bursts into them that channels the filias and predominant phobias at that time. Above all, the phobias.
The political feature of the current world is that the unexpected occurs at any time in the less thought site. After 11-S no one would have imagined that New York could one day have a Muslim mayor. Precisely that could happen shortly because in the primary of the Democratic Party a Muslim won.
Zohran Mamdani, whose family roots are in India, was born in Uganda only 33 years ago and is defined as “socialist”, beat Andrew Cuomo, a former governor who is also the son of Mario Cuomo, a famous former governor of New York. The defeated leader is an exponent of the Democratic establishment that was supported by Hillary Clinton.
By the way, Mamdani helped Andrew Cuomo had to give up the Government for an avalanche of allegations of harassment and sexual aggressions. But that in the city where Al Qaeda killed more than three thousand people launching airplanes against skyscrapers, a Muslim may become mayor, it is striking.
Although jihadism and ultra-islamism represent more than a tiny minority in Islam, the most bloodthirsty acts of terrorism unfairly harm the image of Muslims in general. To that, Mamdani has been born in Africa and self -defining socialist in society that gave power to a xenophobic and conservative billionaire. A sign of polarizing trends of this time.
The other example is in Chile, where two extreme right leaders bid in the conservative path, while a leader of the Communist Party won in the center -left. Another sign that the rise of plutocrats and ultras could have as a counterpart the return of ideologies that generated totalitarianism and failures in the 20th century.
In the presidential elections of November, Jeannette Jara, former Labor Minister of the current Government, will be headed to the Ballow of the ruling party. Internal beat the candidate of the centrist Socialist Party, Carolina Yohá, and Gonzalo Winter, of the moderate broad front led by President Gabriel Boric.
The PC was not always to the left of the PS. In the Popular Front that led to the presidency to the socialist Salvador Allende, the communists maintained a more moderate position than their partners, including the president overthrown in 1973. But in the current official coalition, the PC is the left wing, critic of the Buric turn towards centrist progressivism and its complaints against fraud and repression in Venezuela.
However, the left turn that has just given the Coalition of Boric does not imply extreme radicalization. Jeannette Jara, who was an effective minister of the current government, took distance from the leadership of her party and starred in hard clashes with the Secretary General, Lautaro Carmona, as when she denounced that in Cuba there is authoritarianism and political prisoners. Even so, he is a leader of the Communist Party and that indicates the empowerment of a political force that seemed closed by history.
According to the surveys for the November elections, if a single candidate for the right, the center -left and its communist candidate would have few chances of winning. But possibly the right -wing vote will be divided into three: the moderate will vote to Evelyn Matthei; The hard right will be done by José Antonio Kast and the outraged for Johannes Kaiser, the leader of the Ultraconservator National Libertarian Party.
If that happens, it may have Chile in the Presidency to the Communist Party for the first v
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