Pinto certainly had no idea how accurate his prediction would become. The graphic below is a hypothetical representation of how the political distribution of Chile might have looked during this period. Due to a variety of factors including labor uprisings and anti-communist interventions by the United States, the results were disastrous. The political distribution which so heavily favored the center positions began to quickly divide under the hardships. The result was a drastic political polarization which left very few people in the Center to Moderate philosophical positions.
Leaders become more and more rigid, and political compromise became impossible.
This great polarization quickly spread to the social sectors, and people began to fight among themselves. It wasn't long before the politicians and citizens who backed the Democratic Confederation started to support the idea of military intervention. Although accounts and opinions vary as to the extent, it is also clear that the United States also supported a military solution because of the concern of Cuba's support of Allende and the socialist movement, and what were feared to be ties to the former Soviet Union. The solution, it seemed to many, rested in the hands of the Chilean military, and General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte . This is how a national military, previously a neutral entity until at least the 1960's, was thrust into the world of party politics, and into the escalating conflict.