That is why we, Mexicans, reject confrontation. Politics already encompasses new horizons, new ways of framing debates, understanding the other, finding new solutions, and opening paths to consciousness, the only way to build better development. In Mexico, our government is an embarrassment. Political activity is the only way to move forward together: recognizing differences and finding convergences to take the best path, the one that guides our divergences and privileges our affinities. Mexico can and must survive this dark era, where it seems that darkness, ambition, lies, and force will paint the future. Mexicans seem to have forgotten the historical lesson of what it means to do politics. We are also immersed in a polarized world, with wars and attacks to decide the new geopolitical order. Mexico has lost territory, population, and progress due to internal and external wars. These can be overcome, as Habermas explained, through rational debate, where no one has the truth for being better, but for having the best argument. The Mexican Revolution decimated entire families, and that experience lives on in the national consciousness, just like many other episodes that weakened us. Political activity is fundamental for the development of nations. Communication is increasingly confusing. Making politics the common ground for coexisting in differences to advance together on the same project seems to have vanished. It seems we have lost centuries of civilization; that nuclear weapons, capable of ending the planet, are once again brandished; that countries have decided to invest more in armaments than in development. It is very painful to see the reactions of our president, who gets irritated, demands, and returns to the past at any questioning. There are no arguments; debate is evaded. Confrontation can be natural if one listens to the other and tries to understand their cause. We deserve that. However, this work has been devalued because power has corrupted its true essence. There is no future, let alone a common future that must be built in national unity, which is increasingly damaged. And it seems that new technologies have made us lose the race of intelligence, but not that of consciousness. This is the world today, in which we must move away from polarization, from what seems to be the easiest path, without taking the other into account, because that is how we can lose consciousness. This implies that no one is better than the other; they are simply different approaches to the same reality that mark possible conflicts. One cannot abandon polarization. She cannot explain anything; she gets lost before reality. When in reality we are luminous, diverse, musical, hardworking, and vital. Rationality thus becomes the path to follow to find the best, most viable solution. The opposite is to polarize: to confront, with or without arguments, the other simply for being different. Disqualifying without listening is a vanity that sometimes costs blood. Democracy was based on human thought; today there are those who claim it is incompatible with freedom. She does not listen to the opposite: it does not exist because it does not think as it “should.” Let us leave behind offense and disqualification; let us open our minds and our consciousness to better coexistence. She seeks power with no other end than power itself. That in a society there are different points of view, divergent ways of solving a problem, or perspectives that seem very far apart from each other only reflects that current societies are plural and offer a great variety of options to approach the same problem. Statesmen differ from politicians precisely by their ability to summon everyone under the same project, despite differences, and to place peaceful and harmonious coexistence on the long-term plane. And artificial intelligence arises. Hopefully Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo understands that too. There are no reasons: there is the search for power, of the strongest; not of reason or of common construction.
