You end up surrounding yourself with people who think or look like you. Affinities determine friendships and loves. You deal with those people with whom you confide or prefer for a coffee at work. People like us who end up being everyone is like us. Then the elections come and you are perplexed because there are a bunch of people who vote badly, who vote strangely.
In our real life this dissociation occurs in an impure way – sometimes you can’t avoid the strange vote in the form of a brother-in-law, for example. This is not the case in the virtual, where the debugging is radical. Blocking, silencing, cornering or cruel mockery of everything we don’t like to hear, think or know. Of those whose existence we don’t even want to know. If we don’t see them, we forget that they exist and that they usually vote strangely in an election.
All this leads us to believe that our view is universal consensus. We turn to books, series or films by authors who certify that our values ​​are the correct ones. Debates, broadcasters and spokespersons that agree, ratify convictions and solutions to complex problems. But then, you know, democracy and its millions of people who go and vote is strange.
Examples…? We all, fortunately, have formidable Madrid friends who explain in horror what Ayuso is doing to their city. They are certainly formidable Madrid friends who – oh, surprise! – have to live with 1,586,985 Madrid people who vote strangely in their community.
More serious is the case of politicians in office who think that people who vote strange do not exist. And, therefore, it should not be known, listened to, earned or interpellated because that would mean that they live among us. A nuisance that makes it difficult for them to follow their own at a friend’s house or in a bar. Drinking, smoking, legislating while singing old songs from old wars that always end up being lost.
