Sorry, PSOE militants of Ferraz and Martínez Zaporta: you will pass. Yes they will pass. In fact, they must pass, we all better let them pass. The PP will govern again in Spain, the same thing it has done in cities, autonomies, towns and associations. And it turns out, oh, the world won’t collapse. There will be better things, worse things, they will screw up in serious and minor matters, they will get it right in others. And then they too will fall. It will be someone else who happens then. Probably the PSOE. Maybe not.
We have been like this for more than forty years and things have not gone badly for us as a country. In fact we have done better than well, better than in our entire history of “they will not pass”, of horses in congress and unity of destiny in the universal.
Together, yes, although different. Confronted but civil: that’s how we do well. Those who want us on both sides of a wall look first and almost only at their own behinds. This sentimental orgy with so many traps that Pedro Sánchez has launched into at such an electorally delicate moment (a temporal coincidence that in itself should raise anyone’s eyebrow) clearly seeks that objective. He knows well that his only chance to survive is to set himself up as guardian of the wall, to raise his people against the “bad guys”, to paint a right with horns and a tail that must not “pass” or the gates of hell will open.
Let’s face each other, then. Sánchez is not the only one who follows that path, just the last. It is, wherever it comes from, the wrong path. The one you have to distrust.
I read the rather long, rather poorly written and quite sentimental letter from Pedro Sánchez to the citizens. There is in all of it, however, something totally true: Spanish public life has been flooded by a tide of lies, half-truths, slander, hoaxes and terrible journalism. Although the latter affects practically all neighborhoods equally, when it comes to the hoax industry it is the extreme right that takes the prize. Because it is basically in her DNA: the ultra-populist-nationalists, from Putin to Trump, have in their manual the capture of public opinion, the “alternative truth”, invention, childishness. Social networks help, but so do those pseudomedia that emerge like mushrooms and that the platforms continue to promote because they generate clicks. It is the industry of lying, against which there is only one antidote: distrust what you read. No matter how much (or especially if) what you read seems to agree with you.
From everything I have read about Begoña Gómez, the trigger for this “now” we are in, I don’t see anything that smacks of flagrantly illegal. More things should be known to be able to label his activity as criminal so happily. But I do see a few things that slip through the cracks of ethics. Above all one: what is the wife of the President of the Government doing (she cannot stop being one, nor can she split her person in two) recommending companies that participate in public tenders. That is simply not done.
