Sad consolation prize, by Emma Riverola

While ERC and Junts get entangled in their umpteenth battle, Research the dirty war of the PP against independence it reaches the National High Court, the Supreme Court, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and Congress. If the first fight plunges those who believed in an independent Catalonia into discouragement just around the corner, the police sewers give arguments to those who feed the idea of ​​an irreformable Spain, cavalier with diversity, bellicose against Catalonia and unscrupulous with democracy. Under these premises, the putrid waters of anonymous reports and false evidence; of corrupt policemen, arbitrary togas and journalists without qualms or shame join the string of insults against Catalonia that the nationalist discourse treasures. And as soon as Francoism is pointed out as Felipe V. The humiliations of history never completely go away. They lie dormant, waiting for the moment to return. There is no purer victim than the resurrected one. The causes of the past can always be cleaned of contradictions and errors.

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Between discouragement and indignation, He said. A muted outrage. Due to the same discouragement and because the cold has penetrated us before winter arrives. The independence movement has power, but does not know how to use it. He has speculated so much about ruling Ithaca that reality seems petty to him. In these, stability seems like an aspiration. I have little longing It refers to a critical patient, to agony, to a consolation prize. The audacity, the long look, even the transgression, is relegated to private initiative. Sad for those who dream so big.

Faced with the political inaction and police corruption of the PP, Pedro Sánchez’s government has advocated tempering the situation. His insistence on dialogue has more of a balsamic posture than a real proposal, but it is not harmless. In a recent interview, Artur Mas encourages agreement on “basic country issues” with the PSC. Something is moving. But homework is still pending. The dissatisfaction in the fit between Catalonia and Spain will continue, more or less latent, more or less manifest, if not addressed in depth. But the breath of the right brakes the left. Bad business for the PSOE and profits for the PP. Those from Feijóo will not be billed for their adventure in the sewers. The left still lacks a seductive proposal for a diverse Spain. Not only to confront it with the pro-independence argument, but also to fight against that ultra populism that is spreading throughout Europe.

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