The Fundéu chose “Polarization” as word of the year. And yes, there is plenty of polarization, but it doesn’t come from 2023 either. If I were still on the advisory board, I would have fought tooth and nail to choose another voice as word of the year. I would have liked that word to be “word.” Redundancy? I don’t believe it. “Word” It is a threatened voice. The year that ends has completely dismantled his value in the high spheres of Spanish politics. The process began during the previous legislature of Pedro Sanchez. Why has he lied to us so much? Carlos Alsina asked him, although a more precise question would have been why is his word worthless?
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The writer Javier Cercas last week he published an article in El País, “A call to rebellion”, where he kicked. He wrote with fatalism and dignity that nor will he vote for the PSOE again after assuming the evidence that the word that comes from the party we used to vote for is out of legal tender, like a peseta stamp. The PSOE swore to the writer, to his face, I don’t know if at a lunch or a private dinner, that there was no amnesty. My suspicion is that Salvador Illa promised him this, but I have no proof of this. And Cercas, who still considers the word as something that carries weight, conveyed it in an article for the same newspaper where he put his credibility at the feet of the horses: “There will be no amnesty,” it was titled.
Oh! Those were not Cercas’s words. They were the fraudulent words that had been entrusted to Cercas and that he considered appropriate to transmit to a society that was emerging from elections in which Pedro Sánchez and his entire team repeated the same idea. Neither amnesty nor handover of Pamplona to Bildu. Well, words are not carried away by the wind, they are carried away by lies, self-confidence, and the total absence of honesty. In the entire history of Spanish democracy, I can think of few leaders who have humiliated their voters in this way. I wonder if there will be many socialist voters with the dignity of Javier Cercas, or few. How many people still consider words to have value? How many more feel betrayed? Meanwhile, others have to pretend, for example, that a colloquial expression of the former mayor of Pamplona is a very serious thing. Predictable overacting for a few words when all the words fly like a vapor without content. Empty of language, gravity is invented.