“The style is the man”, wrote Buffon. In other words, the way we behave tells us who we are. There are many different styles. Some become lords and others become pigs. And there are those who have no style, neither good nor bad: they go unnoticed. If there is no good style in Spanish politics, but regrettable, not to say shameful, it is because the politician, male or female, with bad style must not be a very good person either. They are as incontinent at home as they are in public.
Undoubtedly there are still politicians with good style, but for others this is what is not styled and they prefer bad style. Although who would entrust the education of their daughter, the management of their company or the tutoring of their doctoral thesis to those politicians with bad style: rude, aggressive and worried about their seat before the things to eat and people’s problems?
If they are destroying the dignity and the minimal prestige that was left of the institutions, how should they not ruin what we entrusted to them in person? It is a pity that among politicians they are paying the righteous for sinners. And among those who sin out of shamelessness, some do it more than others. The politics of the extreme right in this takes the palm, which is not, as in the case of the saints, the palm of martyrdom, but that of the scorn of the adversary and the mockery of the citizen. Would we entrust the government to them? Voting is a risk.
The last lesson of political science coincides with the first of psychology: who is the person. Some, not just politicians, would not dare. There may not be a clear answer to the question: “Who am I?”, but there is to the three questions into which we can break it down: What image do you want of yourself? What image would you like to be in front of others? What are you doing for others? Tired of seeing the impunity of incontinent politicians who do not know themselves, more and more citizens are orphaned by political representatives, do not know what to vote for and are impatiently waiting for good style politics. Citizenship remains the true bulwark of democracy.
