Carme Forcadell was whistled and booed in the pretended unitary act to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 1-O. “Traitor!” they yelled at her. To her. To the woman convicted by the Supreme Court, the one who spent more than three years in prison, the one who now cries out to forget the reproaches and “work together for a new opportunity & rdquor ;. On the contrary, Carles Puigdemont, the politician who lied without shame, the one who took refuge in Waterloo, gathered the enthusiasm of the thousands of people gathered. His speech wants to be stony: the referendum has already been held and it is up to the Government to put his mandate into practice. If it does not, the Consell per la República must lead the action. That is, the. The same proposal that Junts offered to ERC. Epic to get the holy grail: command of the pro-independence hegemony.
The fifth anniversary of 1-O has come and gone. WhatsApp groups were no longer flooded with messages or ‘estelades’. It’s been a long time since the flags began to disappear from the balconies. Some remain: resistance, carelessness or nostalgia. Now, the subject is the possible bankruptcy of the Government. Also the one of Together. There is talk of his two souls: the pragmatic or the heroic (cynicism and sectarianism would be the remains of both). Although perhaps they are no more than the body and soul of the same entity. The one that ruled for decades, the one that smells the air and adapts to the breath of the wind. Chameleon skin. How far will it be able to go in the midst of a democratic recession?
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Each independence supporter carries this ‘procés’ of a terminal nature as best he can. Denial, anger, negotiation, depression and acceptance, say the canons of grief. Some live anchored in the first and second phases. Many are already into other things. That cloud -rather galaxy- of opinion-makers and presumed journalists who denied the doubts, cheered the mobilizations and were accomplices of some incapable politicians contributes to its overcoming. Today they strive to cool the embers. They even dare to gloss the Catalan socialists, after having marked them with the stigma of traitor.
But the painful spectacle of these days does not hide other democratic embarrassments: a judicial system that is still determined to mark Spanish politics and police abuses that, five years later, have not been repaired. During the last decade, many Catalans have disconnected from Spain, and many others have also disconnected from Catalonia. A disdain for institutions. A bankruptcy in the affections. Wounds that deepen the collective discouragement.