You Didn’t See This Coming (But Your Brain Did)—and AI Saw It Much Earlier
Everyone is calling it a "rightward turn."
That’s a mistake.
This is not a turn.
The defining contemporary challenge is this: while authoritarian leaders like Maduro or politically agile figures like Petro could once articulate certain principles only to act in direct opposition, today’s landscape—shaped by strategic intelligence, artificial intelligence, and related technologies—demands from candidates not only intelligent discourse but, fundamentally, intelligent action. This requires confronting—and in many cases dismantling—political systems built on militancy, where practices such as cronyism, bureaucracy, corruption, statism, "entrepreneurialism" (in its rent-seeking form), paid media, overstaffed public sectors, and clientelist social aid sustain a vicious cycle of poverty and state inefficiency.
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Kast’s victory was not simply against Jara; it was against the threshold of cerebral boredom and, more profoundly, against the left’s chronic lack of self-criticism—a pattern repeated from Lula to the Kirchners, from U.S. Democrats to Petro. Ideological rigidity, loyalty to dogma, and the ritualization of militancy—with its marches, chants, and predictable narratives—have prevented center-left forces, and even parties that label themselves as right-wing but operate as statists (such as Peronism or Radicalism in Argentina), from evolving. In contrast, the right has managed to project a level of coherence and veracity vastly superior to the ideological denial and fanaticism of the "red" parties.
Perhaps the left’s greatest challenge is to recognize that the concentration of state power ultimately generates more inequality, corruption, and poverty than competition and the dynamics of the free market. Its evolution, therefore, must involve relinquishing control by the few over the many and abandoning militant blindness.
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Even China—a hybrid of statism and market capitalism—has understood that without the economic dynamism inherent to capitalism, it would not have achieved its current standing. It is a nation that, had it not been communist for decades, would likely have been the world’s leading economy half a century ago. Today, with its state capitalism, it competes on equal footing with free economies.
We are witnessing a political reprogramming. Chile has just executed a source code that will rewrite Latin American politics. The 58% of Kast over Jara is merely the screen; what truly occurred unfolded in the collective neurochemistry—in the exhaustion of a narrative.
The fundamental truth is that politics must cease its self-deception of believing it is the solution to everything or that the State must own, control, and decide all. In fact, the State’s core role should be to prevent anyone—including itself—from accumulating discretionary power over individuals and the market.
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This implies that the left must stop denying its historical and structural failures—something it has avoided due to passion, bias, or corruption.
Simultaneously, the right faces its own challenge: to avoid falling into the same patterns of blind militancy and not settle for being merely "somewhat more efficient" or "somewhat better" than the left. It must aspire to continuous excellence in the short, medium, and long term—correcting its own historical errors, exposing the left’s unacknowledged failures, and transparently demonstrating the hypocritical and fanatical practices of its opponents even to the left’s own followers.
In summary, for the political world to evolve, three simultaneous processes must occur:
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The right must achieve excellence in every sense, to the point of not only consolidating its base but also demonstrating to left-wing followers that the latter model has been structurally unsound for over 200 years.
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The left must engage in profound self-criticism and abandon much of its dogma. The era of denial is over.
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A pragmatic and efficient State model must emerge, such as that of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where state intervention does not seek to control but to create conditions where excellence, competitiveness, and integrity can flourish. There, the State is so impeccable that its goal is for no one—not even itself—to hold absolute power over individuals and the market. This is the virtuous paradox of good governance.
Thus, there exists a line where the right—with stronger philosophical, scientific, and systemic foundations—holds greater potential but requires social visions that provide a sense of humanity and equity. The left, for its part, must overcome its denialism, fanaticism, and resistance to integral change. If it fails to do so, it will remain an obstacle to constructing that ideal blend embodied today by examples such as Norway, Denmark, or Dubai—a blend that even Sweden does not fully achieve due to its bias toward intellectualized socialism.
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