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We are a deeply divided society. The police and teachers, fighting for a dignified retirement, did not think of uniting to negotiate or protest. In 2015, during the protests against VAT (value added tax), I arrived at the protest one morning and when I asked, they told me it was a protest of private schools and they asked me to wait in front of the school for the afternoon class. Sisto Escobar Park, where the protests of private universities gathered. The Todos Somos Pueblo group united students and professors from public and private universities. However, no one thought that the common goal of the protest that day was to fight against the education tax, that’s all.
The level of fragmentation is so high that we still cannot tell who won all the primaries. The PDP leaders tacitly supported the mayor of San Juan as well as other mayoral candidates, while in Mayaguez the people themselves blocked the budget of the mayor and candidates in the next elections. The PNP postponed Jenniffer González to take over the leadership of the party. This is not to say that it is a healthy attitude about deferring and following the principles of conscience. What we are seeing can be called the Kane Syndrome. Brothers who killed their own brothers out of jealousy, envy and resentment.
We also disagree on whether LUMA’s contract is legal and whether it has failed to fulfill its fundamental mission: “to rebuild and transform electric utilities to deliver reliable, resilient, secure, and sustainable service at affordable prices.” (https://lumapr.com/about-the-restoration-of-the-energy-system/) Terminating the LUMA contract is very expensive, apparently more expensive than terminating the lives and businesses of senior citizens and small Puerto Rican businessmen. We divide ourselves to the point of paralysis when LUMA executives behave cynically toward people’s conditions and needs.
Divide and conquer, was the motto of Julius Caesar, who exploited the divisions of the Gallic “tribes” in his war to conquer Gaul. It is also believed to be the work of Philip II, King of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great. Curiously, this political strategy is usually accompanied by unity or unity under the leadership of the victor. This is not what is happening in Puerto Rican politics. “Every man for himself” and “God grant him good fortune” seem to be the mottos of PLP rulers and politicians.
The country is hopelessly divided. A friend in the PNP told me that in the last election, his party would have won by getting the most votes, and it did. Pedro el Minúsculo governed poorly, getting only a 33% majority. No one doubted that the results were unclean, or that the 2020 electoral law was rigged to manipulate procedures, especially those for early and absentee voting. This manipulation, which can be called cheating, was blatantly repeated in the 2024 PNP primary, but it did not work because the gypsies read the cards and in the end, in the chaos of the PNP, Jenniffer González emerged as the winner.
The PNPPD evil regime faces a desperate and stupid political reorganization that nourishes the growth of the new right “Dignity Project” and the new left “Citizens Victory Movement” and the Puerto Rican Independence Party alliance. Following Cain’s strategy is to politically assassinate the Alliance and belittle the development of the new right embodied by the Democratic Party. This is a split without a unifying choice. From this chaos will not emerge a new order, but a great chaos. Change is imperative whether we like it or not. We cannot expect new results by doing the same things. Either we change or we sink irrevocably. Of course, for some, leaving is an option: a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans!
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