Christian Discernment of the Situation and Indispensable Elements for a Overcoming Alternative

Abstract

The first thing we want to emphasize is that a truly overcoming alternative can only be achieved from the current
situation: only by optimizing the good can we overcome the bad. Therefore, we have to start by taking charge of
our situation. And we have to be able to see the positive, because if it were true that everything is bad, we would
be hopeless. For this analysis to be Christian, that is, humanizing from the paradigm of Jesus, we have to make
explicit the attitudes from which we carry it out: from within, from below, with a constructive, inclusive approach,
for the good, and in such a way that we are all subjects in symbiotic interaction.
In analyzing the situation we cannot restrict ourselves to our country, because globalization and virtual
simultaneity also concern us, not only as receivers but also as subjects, although those who command this
historical figure today are the globalized corporations and the big financiers. That is why there is no democracy in
any country. In our country the main problem is that there is no State, since the government is only concerned
with perpetuating itself in power and from there obtaining almost unlimited profits, today, above all, from mining
in the Guayana arc. This is the reason for the deterioration of all services, the rupture of the production chain and
the dedication of the majority to subsist. As most of them do not see a future, especially the young people, seven
million have emigrated and continue to leave. What remains of private enterprise is largely because workers have
defended it and employers have taken them into account. There is an urgent need to stimulate this type of
companies, especially those with competitive advantages and those that are indispensable for the recomposition of
the production chain. In the overcoming alternative we all have to fit as deliberative subjects with liberated
freedom. Contributing to the formation of a critical mass of these subjects is the most decisive and the main
contribution of Christianity, if it lives in the following of Jesus. These subjects must organize themselves in a
multitude of associations and organizations, which always proceed from deliberation. These communities and
institutions must become involved, both locally and globally. And they have to foster political vocations so that
the State can facilitate this whole process. Supported by this social body, the government can put in its place,
which it has, both the globalized corporations and the big financiers, as well as the populists, and those who cling
to power by force (army and police). These four steps are indispensable for a better alternative.