Importance of questioning the idea of ​​Irigoyen's Diary

A possible lie that, despite the doubts, was converted and is maintained as an absolute truth and transformed into metaphor to express the blind gaze of the politicians on duty from the opposition spaces. It has its origin and use in the Argentine Republic, when one wants to realize that a false reality is "constructed" for a person so as not to anger him or to get some profit, alluding to one of the myths around Hipólito Irigoyen, which tells that the former president was senile and received a newspaper distorting the events that were taking place at the time, which would be one of the arguments promoted to promote he coup 1930's.

Build false truths to guard the power

Or the one that the political leaders themselves end up self-generating, blinded by their ambitions and the lack of self-criticism that often makes many of the men in power “sick”.

The use of him has taken over the political field, being used to refer when a person, his close circle of collaborators, is They put together a very favorable story, which certainly does not agree with reality, with the mission of not contradicting it, or taking it real.

A legend built on reality?

It was born from the legend around one of the most important political personalities of the 20th century, such as the former radical president Hipólito Irigoyen. (1916-1922 / 1928-1930), to whom his closest advisers, in order not to worry him because since he was elderly and in poor health, they printed him a fictitious newspaper in which the news was all gratifying but did not correspond to the reality of the country, greatly affected by the economic crisis world.

Irigoyen was overthrown in his second presidency by the coup led by General Félix Uriburu, and according to many historians who have investigated this legendary story with which they do not agree, that the Irigoyen diary was a lie that the coup military established to discredit the former president whom they wanted to remove from office as of place.

So, nothing better than presenting him and convincing the public that the country was run by a president affected by senility, and moved at the whim of his advisers, to remove him from power.

Leaders indifferent to social demands

Beyond its truth or falsehood, we must say that from that time to the present, from the highest spheres of power, and from the media massive, it is common to comment that many presidents govern with the "Irigoyen diary" because otherwise On the contrary, it is not understood how they do not recognize certain situations, or implement some unfeasible measures and nothing effective.

Either someone misrepresents reality for one of the purposes already indicated, or they directly do not They see it because they settle on an ideological position that consists of believing that they do everything well and in favor of the town.

Many attitudes of the ruling class, from Irigoyen to the present day, suggest that they do not see what is happening around them because the self-absorption of the powerful distances them from contact with real people, especially the most conflictive and critical conditions and situations in the country such as: poverty, educational problems, corruption, among others flagella.

Disconnection with reality

A very clear example of what we are saying are the statements that wander through the pages of the newspapers, television channels, internet portals, and radio stations in which the politicians in exercise of power they say things that are totally opposed to what ordinary people live and appreciate in their day, such as: "there is no economic crisis, it is just an external situation that it is affecting us but it will pass", "this is not a drug-producing country but a transit country", "insecurity is a sensation", "inflation is going down", etc etc

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