Hacia una democracia totalitaria

AuthorAlejandro Ordóñez Maldonado
ProfessionUniversidad Santo Tomás (Bogotá)
Pages69-76
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HACIA UNA DEMOCRACIA TOTALITARIA
Alejandro O M
Universidad Santo Tomás (Bogotá)
. I
Mucho se habla y mucho se escribe en todas las lenguas so-
bre el populismo, pero lo que queda claro es que realmente no se
sabe qué es. Su concepto resulta bien vaporoso y se le ataca con
vehemente emotividad en la mayoría de las oportunidades para
defender la «corrección liberal», o mejor dicho, lo «democrática-
mente correcto».
La pluma punzante de Juan Fernando Segovia lo describe
dramáticamente:
«Todo el mundo habla de la luna sin nunca haber estado allí, de poetas
a científicos. Imaginan su núcleo, definen su composición geológica, aventu-
ran sobre su aire, divagan sobre sus vientos y escriben cuartillas a su belleza.
Empero poco, más o menos, sabemos de ella: que es porosa y tiene cráteres,
a más de carecer de luz propia. Y así pasa con el populismo; no sabemos qué
sea, pero porque lo hemos vivido o padecido, alcanzamos a precisar algunos
de sus síntomas y analizar ciertos rasgos» 1.
1 Juan Fernando S, «Combatiendo el camaleón populista», Fuego y
Raya (Córdoba de Tucumán), año 11, n. 21 (2021), pp. 115-116.

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