Orientality versus decadent Uruguayism

Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Name of a state that today oppresses a people who were once the cradle of South American federalism, a people born in a territory of constant international disputes who have always claimed their autonomy and freedom. Fighters of the "Oriental revolution" inspired by the greatest political revolution in history, the American Revolution.

How did we go from being a people embraced by the values of autonomy, freedom, and rebellion against international powers such as the Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, or Porteño, to being a decadent, spiritually gray, Frenchified people and a laboratory for international powers in the region? The answer to this question lies in the transformation of our own patriotic identity, when we stopped being "Orientales" and became "Uruguayans".

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Our change of identity is deeply due to the hegemonic power of the putrid, statist, and globalist Colorado Party in the history of the so-called Oriental Republic of Uruguay. To begin with, our current national identity is forged in Montevideo centralism. Intellectual technocrat doctors locked in a privileged office in Montevideo, trying to completely run a country they did not know, backed by the cowardly and traitorous to the homeland Fructuoso Rivera.

Our national identity is unfortunately forged from the triumph of the egocentric cosmopolitanism of Montevideo over the free spirit of rural communities. Montevideo unitarism that persists to this day, where true decentralization and autonomy of the people are replaced by bureaucratic offices run by thieving chieftains and spiritless office workers called "intendencias."

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Uruguayanism arises in opposition to Orientalidad: it sought the consolidation of a national state that would oppress the inhabitants of the eastern province, while Orientalidad represented true national autonomy and confederalism with sister provinces.

Everything ends up degenerating in the construction of our own political culture. After years of dispute, the victories over it belong to the already described putrid Colorado Party, but with a new impulse of mediocrity, statism, and social democracy through Batllismo.

The construction of our political culture is marked by a veneration of state institutions and a cult of mediocrity and lukewarmness, where Uruguayans fall deeply into an abyss where state powers plunder and destroy them slowly and gradually. Like a frog being cooked in a pot over very low heat, which, not detecting sudden changes in temperature, doesn't notice it is being cooked and doesn't aspire to "jump out of the pot."

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All political resistance that over the years functioned with a certain degree of resistance to dominant Batllismo, today has suffered before its cultural power, venerates it, and expands it. This is the current case of the National Party.

The Uruguayan people, or rather, Orientales, need an identity refoundation. It is necessary to awaken once again that liberating, federal, and autonomist spirit that today is deeply buried by a political culture sustained by national oligarchies.

We need to break with the prevailing party system, return to the basic foundations of the homeland, and shout once more:

FREEDOM, ORIENTALES!