The five deputies that Podemos obtained last July have broken with Sumar and they already sit on the benches of the Joint Congressional Group. The party born from the 15M impulse has just written what, either I am very wrong, or it is the penultimate chapter of its short story. Very shortly after being created and with Pablo Iglesias at the helm, Podemos achieved, in 2014 and 2015, magnificent results at the polls, and many thought then that his famous cry of “Yes we can!” It was actually a premonition.
But the purple ones, which They built complicities with other formations of large leftists – such as Izquierda Unida – and small ones, and who knew how to ally themselves with similar groups at a regional level – such as the Comuns or the Galician Mareas -, they found themselves drawn with increasing impetus by a spiral of internal disagreements that would lead to multiple ruptures. . The first great disagreement separated Iglesias and Errejón, both founders of Podemos.
The fall of Podemos has been painful for those who believed in the possibility of ending the toxic components of the so-called “78 regime” and correcting an economic system that had spread desolation with the tremendous crisis of 2018. Many saw that, this time yes, the miracle of “storming the heavens” could happen.
During the ‘via crucis’ of Podemos, which apparently will last a little longer, the purple leaders have shown time and again, stubbornly, radically, to be carriers of all the defects and vices that adorn the ‘zoon politikon’. His enemies have been many and very powerful, it is undeniable. Despite this, rememberthe energy and passion with which, especially in recent years, they have dedicated themselves to self-destruction causes chills. The story of these young people who go from the resounding and dazzling success of their first years, the days of wine and roses, to devoting themselves to a political cannibalism spectacle so fierce has few precedents. Even less if we look at the stark forms that their internal struggles have taken. Never have so few disappointed so many.
There are many analysts and commentators who, speaking about the purple ones, have evoked the topic of the left’s legendary tendency towards successive and endless division. Or those who have remembered once again, ironically, that sublime dialogue of Monty Python in ‘The Life of Brian’ (that of the Popular Jewish Front and the Popular Front of Judea).
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But I would say that This story goes beyond the legend about the endless quarrels, ruptures and fragmentations in the left-wing parties., and also the masterful humor of Monty Python. The decline of Podemos contains and at the same time goes beyond all of this to place itself in the terrain of political pornography. The endless stream of envy, betrayal, lies, low-level maneuvers, selfishness, narcissism, meanness and sectarianism is difficult to overcome. Sins of all kinds have been eating away at a project that, after exciting so many, has darkened the spirit of those who, whether voting for it or not, contemplated it with hope. An authentic Shakespearian drama has unfolded before our eyes, intense, cruel, desolating.
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Podemos exploited a resounding, belligerent message soaked in populism. A break with business as usual, a fight against “caste”. The podemitas were the vanguard of the most needy and, furthermore, they embodied all the virtues. They taught everyone from the moral superiority so typical of a certain left. Black or white, good and bad. They were simply right (neither humility nor self-criticism are part of the Podemite DNA, as we have seen so many times). The spectacular moral shipwreck of the project completely refutes those convinced that good people accumulate on the left. And they agree, on the other hand, with those of us who think that The miserable people are extraordinarily widely distributed.
It is not necessary to say that when we talk about Podemos we also talk about Sumar -and its components- and its leader, Vice President Yolanda Díaz, anointed by Pablo Iglesias who added this error to a string of other monumental errors. With the fraternal complicity of Pedro Sánchez, she immediately and with The systematic harassment of Podemos is astonishingly cold. He marginalized them when building the new platform -Sumar-, when composing the electoral lists, when the new Government was formed and also once parliamentary life began to move. The purple ones have had to take refuge in the Mixed Group to catch their breath and, above all, to try to manage to survive.