A ghost walks the Spanish politics. Is called ‘Yolanda Sanchez‘. On Tuesday, March 21, one of the TVE presenters, around four in the afternoon, summarized the arguments against the Vox motion of no confidence who called, in a lapse, the vice president ‘Yolanda Sánchez’. This Wednesday the 22nd, the spokeswoman for the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarraprotagonist of the Cainite war within the PP between paul married and Isabel Diaz Ayuso -which did not prevent him from attacking cainism within the Government- he baptized Yolanda Díaz as the “white mark & rdquor; of Pedro Sanchez. We will not say that a cold sweat runs through the hosts of Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, No. But her electoral future depends on “Yolanda Sánchez& rdquor;, that is: the alliance between Yolanda and Sánchez, between the PSOE and Add-United We Can.
If one were forced to choose a single intervention for this Tuesday the 21st due to their knowledge of the exact moment in which Spanish politics finds itself at the moment in the face of the upcoming electoral contests -there is nothing written about tastes- what could it be? the one of Gabriel Ruffian Romero, ERC spokesperson; Because? Because apart from what is considered the main virtue of a deputy – giving fuel to the monkey – they rarely meet the status of political analysts, be it because of their obsequiousness to the leader or their respective ideology.
Gabriel Ruffian (Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona, 1982) is a political analyst-deputy. And in the first part of it and in the closing, he explained what must be taken into account to know the Spanish evolution before the next elections.
“What do you think those who go to work will see about all this tomorrow? The truth? 52 ultras applauding everything without knowing why? Yes, many people are going to hear that, it is the truth. But many other people are also going Let’s see something else. You are going to see a venerable gentleman who is very concerned about the autocratic drift of a government that governs, that agrees, that negotiates with the enemies of Spain,” he explained with his arms raised. “And that’s what a lot of people are going to see and hear. If we’re able to listen carefully, it plays a tune and I can assure you that there are plenty of people willing to listen to it: ‘We’re not fascists, we’re concerned patriots.’ And we can make a fuss about these people [Vox] see you tomorrow. It doesn’t matter. Because they can win. Ladies and gentlemen, you know people, working-class people, who are much more concerned, much more pissed off about what, I don’t know, what I get paid for my public office, than because a King has fled after stealing for 40 years. Do you know her? I do. Do you know people who hate parties that vote in favor of the interprofessional minimum wage and who vote for parties that vote against raising the SMI, charging that salary? I do. Because? The answer is terrible but true: because there are a lot of people willing to vote against their interests, thinking that they are voting in favor of their principles. But wich ones? The most powerful that can exist in politics: the homeland”.
Let’s follow Ruffian’s reasoning. “Because, who doesn’t want to be part of a homeland, of a collective. But what is a homeland? An army? A soccer team? A hymn? A king? It can be anything. It’s a flag. But what about the people who carry the flags of these people? Perhaps the homeland is its people, it is the other, and how these people live. So let’s see what Vox, the champions of patriotism, has done for those people. In Spain there is 30% child poverty, 13 million poor people, three million unemployed, there is an average of 100 evictions a day, and in Spain almost everything that is eaten has risen by 30%. That is what Spain is today. today. Vox voted against all the aid that saved the lives of millions of people in the worst of the pandemic. These are the concerned patriots.”
And then Ruffian asks: “What does Vox tell you?” And tapping on the lectern he rounded off: “If you’re hungry, Spain; if you don’t have a home, Spain; if you don’t have a job, Spain. He tells you that the homeland is your new God and that you have to pray to him, while they they close a hospital. Mr. Tamames, good afternoon”.
And, in effect, what remains of this motion of censure is that even Ramón Tamames, a venerable person, ‘Rufiándixit’, says that he wants to end the homeland. Most people ignore who the opportunist ex-politician Ramón Tamames is, his successive changes of jacket, and his adherence to the neoliberal economic program in crisis, except for one thing: that he has been a communist during a stage of his life. . And that, as everyone says, he is a professor who has read and written a lot, he is 89 years old and declares that the coalition government is taking us back to 1936. Rufián closed his analysis with a knock: “The people who listen to this people [Vox, PP] to which the melody arrives is due to its abandonment. I don’t have time, but I’d like to talk about mortgages and prices. You ladies of the Government will not make a motion but the inflation. And it is not acceptable for a minister of this government when people cannot buy food in a supermarket to tell them well, go to the one across the street.”
What also remains of the motion of no confidence is the convergence between Yolanda Díaz, her defense of the president, the coalition government and the most relevant ministers, and Pedro Sánchez. The PP already imagines the closing of the rally of the electoral campaign of the generals of January 2024 with Yolanda Díaz and Pedro Sánchez together. By the way, why not? It wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
People who can vote against their own interest is related to an idea of the late American historian Barbara Tuchman. And it is the policy contrary to self-interest that governments tend to practice, described in her book ‘The March of Madness. From the Trojan War to Vietnam’, published in 1984 (RBA Books). “A notable phenomenon throughout history, regardless of place or time, is the pursuit, by governments, of policies contrary to their own interests. It seems that humanity behaves worse at the level of governments than in any other human activity. Government remains the foremost area of madness because it is there that men seek power over others, only to lose it over themselves.”
Also the historian Tuchman had her diagnosis for this: “But no matter how alike two alternatives may appear, there is always freedom of choice to change or desist from a self-defeating course if the politician has the moral courage to undertake it. He is not a creature destined to explode at the whim of the Homeric gods. However, to admit the mistake, to cut the losses, to alter the course, is the most repugnant option of the Government”.
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A finishing touch to the part of Ruffian’s analysis of the homeland could be the dialogue of Ingrid Bergman (Alicia) and CaryGrant (Devlin) in a famous Hithcock film from 1946. “I am not interested in patriotism, nor in patriots. They carry the flag in one hand and with the other they empty the pockets of the people.”