Eva Peron says a lot of relatable things in very vague ways. It is clear that her message is directed at the oppressed and the working class, but she keeps it vague enough that everybody can relate to her words to some degree or another.
Throughout the long work of writing, she continues to empower the people of Argentina and condemn the elite. While reading her words, i was thinking about an article I read about how Trump is a populist- and yeah, actually you can find a lot of similarities between Eva and Trump’s words. Their style of vagueness and appealing to the people with nationalist ideas, very similar. Although a pretty fundamentally different message. It doesn’t really matter which message you’re pushing to be a populist I guess.
I feel like I can’t have a full opinion on Peronism, because I don’t clearly understand both sides. As it stands, I think that the message the Perons’ expressed, both Eva and Juan, were all messages I stand behind… Like workers rights, and equal rights for women.
I know there is a lot of controversy about “Peronism”- and I assume it’s probably because like with any politician, they have their downfalls. But I just think that having the Peron’s speak and act on worker’s rights and women’s rights and more was a good thing in the 1940s/50s.
As for the second reading – I definitely had a hard time grasping the overarching meaning within it. Don’t really have much to say about it, except that I’m looking forward to getting the in depth analysis in class lol!
I was pretty unsure too about which side I stand. It is clear that there is a certain tactic behind Evita’s and Peron’s politics, but I cannot neglect that what they both brought to their country was something out of the ordinary for those times. I mean at least the masses were a part of the picture and were addressed to in the first place, unlike other leaders’ politics. It’s still unclear to me weather Evita’s speech was written from the heart or for the purpose of manipulation.