“Coup d’état” and “dictatorship” are two mentions that proliferate on social networks these days in which the Piel de Toro, especially in its central part, is somewhat agitated. Both terms have become a trend because there are quite a few who affirm that Spain is in one situation or another.
Those who did live through a dictatorship, a real one, are our grandparents. And they have memory. Most older people do not have social networks to respond to these comments, but if their grandchildren showed them their mobile phones these days, the comment that would come out spontaneously would be very similar to “but, what do those people say! ”
The amnesty is a criticizable decision. There are quite a few things that the PSOE is having to swallow in order to govern, assuming, in the first place, having to do what it said it was not going to do. Nor should we underestimate the opposition represented in part of the executive and judicial branches. But it is one thing to propose a political, legal and social response and another to resort day after day to hyperbole.
The generation that embraced each other in the transition would not be amazed if they saw on social networks how the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz is surrounded every night and some slogans are chanted by some congregants. This country, which suffered a harsh dictatorship and an assault on Congress a few years ago, has memory.
Our elders would also not understand the criticism that former President Felipe González, whom they probably voted for, receives online for saying what he thinks.
They would not cease to be amazed at that woman with her purse and her handkerchief shouting, just like that, in protest in a square. Or with Paco González and Josep Pedrerol, whom they heard on their transistor speaking, getting wet, about politics.
A part of the generation that made the transition perhaps would sympathize with those who took to the streets on Sunday, called by the PP. And I would remember that they could not exercise that form of protest for so many years.
Radicalism proliferates on social networks these days and prudence is scarce. Or, rather, the “serenity” that Miquel Roca defends. They are not fertile ground for moderation, but that is the state in which the silent majority of this country finds itself. That Spain so different that it does not want to see the streets on fire. Our elders ask for restraint because they, when they were young, did not have it.
Democracy, which cost so much, is debating. In the dictatorship it was not possible.
