Douglas Pollock
Against all odds, Chile was once again saved from having a new Constitution (12/17/23) soaked with progressist footprints and DNA of the UN’s ‘Agenda 2030’ that also included a climate change chapter. The 1980 Constitution, thus, remained in force.
The chances of rejecting the new text seemed to vanish since the most right-wing party (Republican), together with woke companies and unions, called to approve the new proposal even before knowing its draft. The “In Favor” option had thus everything to win: the right, the left and the money. The other option had nothing except courage and awareness to expose the huge threat that the former posed.
The scenario for those who promoted the “Climate Constitution”, Republicans and the center-right (the extreme left didn’t promote anything), was favored by blaming libertarians for “voting the same as the communists” who said they would vote for the “Against” option. It is not clear why that wing acted in such a contradictory manner, since they were more than happy with the “In Favor” option because they would finally achieve a Venezuela-like Constitution and of other Marxist paradises.
The fact is that advocates of the “Against” option called to vote without caring whether the communists agreed with them or not and, instead, to be aware of the text that was being offered to the country in which they saw a socialist, progressist and globalist document. The patriots’ alleged loyalty to the communists turned out to be, apart from false, a weak argument that served, at best, to narrow the difference of a comfortable victory.
In the end, without resources, using only the social media along with the awakening of people’s common sense, conservatives achieved a clear victory of 55.8% against 44.2%, a great defeat for the entire political establishment.
This success, however, did not stop Chile’s journey towards the cliff.
For example, along with the commitment to John Kerry’s “Global Methane Hub” that includes Chile, the US and 11 other countries, Chile also signed the “COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action”, which will soon become an attack on national and Western agriculture and livestock.
In parallel, climate policies in Congress continue to progress. One is the “Energy Transition Law”, that aims to incorporate electricity transmission as a sector enabled for carbon-neutrality, a guise that actually seeks to save European renewable energy companies from bankruptcy. This bill, dispatched by ‘president’ Boric as a matter of urgency, arose from a one-day visit to Chile last June of Ursula Von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, asking him to “solve the problem”. With this new climate action, electricity rates will continue to skyrocket along with the country’s social and economic crisis, but saving the planet and foreign companies at taxpayers’ expense.
Climate policies of a country that doesn’t exist for the purposes of preventing the climate from changing on the planet, along with a political right on the verge of extinction not quite because of global warming but for its violent turn to the left, are the bitter return to reality after the triumph of freedom against tyranny, hence, with hope of solution.