2023-08-13 03:03:54
Euphemism is the basis of all civilization. As we become more civilized, we inevitably become more hypocritical. It is convenient, in order to civilize oneself in a healthy way, to keep this fact always in mind and to handle this inevitable inconvenience in a sensible way, so as not to stray definitively from the truth, losing sight of it forever. This is clearly demonstrated by the treatment that is being given these days to the striking concealment of intentions that is being given in the face of the talks between the various political groups to form a government.
What is happening can be approached benevolently from the excuse of discretion, or relentlessly qualified as a lack of transparency. You choose, reader, how you prefer to call it, according to the ideology or convenience that encourages you. We all know the basic intentions. Those of Pedro Sánchez’s team are to stay in the Government at any cost. His background story – the one he sells to his electorate – is that achieving that power by any means (even if he has to indulge the worst) will be good for Spanish society in the long term, because it will keep it on a path of progress. that will open the future for the desires of our children. It is debatable. They will never admit, from the outset, that this story is the one that they aspire to subconsciously permeate Spanish society and they will cover it with other varied or secondary stories, each one more impossible. But to convince us that this story is indisputable, it would be necessary for, at some point, the recent Executive to have clarified exactly his project and said “I won’t pass here” when something ethically reprehensible deviated from that objective.
In the case of minority nationalists, the intentions are also clear. They have never hidden that their will is to ignore the wishes of the entire population in order to impose their own particular ones on them, regardless of the fact that this places them in the most undemocratic position that can be imagined in modern societies. The story they want to use to justify the indefensible is that there are collective assumptions that have been oppressed and marginalized and that the time for justice has come. For this reason, any nationalism is forced to always maintain the position and rhetoric of the victim, something also debatable and, above all, morally and intellectually very heavy. Now, when the arithmetic of the tie has placed them in a disproportionately decisive position, they must put together that legend very carefully (to the extent that it is purely fictional) so as not to arouse rejection and indignation, both from their followers and from the rest of the public. majority population.
In this game of stories, what beats in the background is the unspeakable. That which neither Pedro Sánchez nor the ERC nor the PNV nor Carles Puigdemont would dare say to their own militancy, nor to the estates that actually have to build the future of our children with their work, nor to the voting population in general. That, the unspeakable, is what is actually being considered in internal deliberations and in external contacts throughout all these days. What do you give me and what do I give you? «Do ut des». I give so that they give me. Strictly personal cases as we have seen in the past: if I put your wife as a minister or look the other way when you fragment an award to a friend.
As the talks progress, just as in recent years the most impossible pacts have been culminated, the trunk of the unspeakable grows. For this reason, the only progress that Spanish society will see in the near future is that of profiles of the Villarejo type: the well men who occasionally update us on the bottom of the trunk. When one of those profiles discovers how to move with more skill than the ex-commissioner, our political system will have a serious problem. The certain possibility of a drift like the one that dismounted Italy from European power.
This week that starts we will shortly have the first indications of what is being the result of these opaque deals. Alberto Núñez Feijóo has a pyrrhic advantage, ethereal and fine as a cat’s ear. And it is that, even if he loses, he can put the cards on the table and not swell the trunk of the unspeakable.
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