It would be difficult for me to specify when it was decided outlaw the spontaneity of political debate. We live in the empire of the argument. And the disconnection from the street, the spiritual retreat in bubbles where no one contradicts you It is on its way to becoming an epidemic. I imagine that the fear of screwing up outweighs the risk of making a fool of yourself; but the brilliant minds that compete to be the most original in the neighborhood, I think they should give it a spin. Because the last two cases seem to me like aurora borealis.
On the one hand, Pedro Sánchez ‘interviewing’ the ministers of his Government; those of the PSOE, of course, when what would have been cool is such an experiment with Irene Montero, For example. But not. The improvised stage is the party’s own headquarters, in Ferraz, with a ‘claque’ incorporated and a rather austere set design. Does this really work?
Of course the PP, also in this, has surpassed them. The occurrence of planting poor Borja Sémper on an artificial beachbarefoot, surrounded by umbrellas with the slogan ‘Blue Summer’, is already part of the list of seedy episodes for reinforce the idea that they take us for idiots. All because of the ‘clickbait’.
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It’s not just that the Mercero family has felt this childish appropriation burnt horn; It is that they left him to egg so that the staff could take his wits for a walk. And as a contrast to the advertised ‘Let Txapote vote for you’, It didn’t take long for the foreseeable ‘Let Chanquete vote for you’. Although I do not think that the popular pay even the thousandth part of the erosion that a phrase that recalls so emphatically – and tricky – their agreements with Bildu has meant for the Socialists.
And meanwhile, the new barbarians of the 21st century continue with their crusade against equality, feminism, abortion, LGTBI rights, immigration or climate change. The barbarians in Kavafis’s poem, the alibi for doing nothing, ended up never arriving, but we already have them inside, in the institutions. On 23-J we played to stop them or to keep advancing.