House of Cards
By: Cristiana Guevara Mena
A house of cards is a structure
created by stacking playing cards, one on top of the other, to form a tower or
a house. It is also an expression that refers to an empty structure or
institution, one that is inconsistent, shaky, and in constant danger of
collapse. The house of cards is built on shaky foundations and is so fragile
that it crumbles even if you remove one necessary element, or if it is blown by
the wind.
In Nicaragua, the current government
policy is a tower of corruption made out of red and black cards of hearts,
clubs, diamonds, spades, and the inevitable jokers. These last ones serve as
puppets that always blindly obey the orders of whomever pulls the strings,
wherever they are placed. We can say that the diamonds and clubs of lesser
value are used to seem like the people, including the young, who hold up the
people on top of the tower, the king of spades and queen of hearts. These two
figures, in their passion and compulsive, self-destructive, and uncontrollable
delirium of power, have sweated so much corruption that they have now eaten
away the foundations. Now their house of cards of wet paper.
In reality, officials who supposedly
support the current government have no personal or professional capacity. What
they have is fear, unconditional obedience, and dependence towards their
leaders. The rulers of the current administration do not know moral or national
objectives, let alone functioning institutions. These concepts do not exist in
their minds, but we hear them in their speeches, even though it means nothing
in their practice of government. The state for them is a permanent game of
give-me-this-that-I’ll-give-you-that, like an exchange of cards and bets of chips in a
poker game. It’s a casino policy where they only bet to win, because if they
lose, they snatch it. In this political game there are no values or scruples,
only a sense of greed for money and lust for power where they play all-in every
move.
The fragilities of the real lack of
power are covered with huge billboards, Christmas trees across the country, and
the media that magnifies their false grandeur and hide their weaknesses. Of
course, we cannot forget the royalties used to buy social consciences to the so
called foolish people who believe the propaganda hoax, when in reality they are
nothing more than a weak wet paper structure about to collapse.
The necessary and inevitable element
that has served to sustain this fragile house of cards is the oil money coming
from Venezuela. With the ace of spades dead, the supply that has helped them
keep the game cycle of corruption will hardly be maintained. In short time,
they will want to wipe out the banks and private companies who have been
accomplice participants in the great casino game, putting themselves at their
service like a cathouse. When that is finished, they will strangle the people
with taxes, and increases in living costs, to squeeze the nation economically
to the fullest, in order to subsidize the lack of money that they will no
longer receive; this is already happening. Being that has been seen in the
previous dictatorships, we can predict that the inevitable social explosion
will repeat itself, as will the following collapse of the government, at the
risk of human and material losses.
The corruption, ineptitude, and
inefficiency in the national service that have been shown so far, along with
the dependence on an external supply, shows that the current government is made
of a fragile and unsustainable structure. Their desire to show suitability,
honesty, and capability with false advertising, is necessary in order to
prevent the people from knowing about this sad truth. We, the citizens, for our
part, must be conscious of our civic responsibility and immense power. We only
need to know the interests of the majority and act towards a new social
agreement. The people are the only ones capable of blowing the wind that causes
the convenient fall of this farce of power, so that it collapses like a big
house of cards.
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