“Coup d’Etat” and “dictatorship” are two mentions that proliferate on social networks these days when Pell de Brau, especially in the central part, is a bit agitated. Both terms have become a trend because they are not few say that Spain is in one situation or the other.
Those who did live through a dictatorship, real ones, are our grandparents. And they have memory. The majority of the elderly do not have social networks to respond to these comments, but if the children showed them their mobile phones these days, the comment that would come out spontaneously would be very similar to a “but, what are these people saying! “
The amnesty is a decision that can be criticized. There are not a few toads that the PSOE is having to swallow in order to govern, assuming, first of all, having to do what it said it would not do. Nor should the opposition represented in part of the executive and judicial branches be underestimated. But it is one thing to raise political, legal and social objections and another to resort to hyperbole day after day.
The generation that embraced the transition would not be surprised if they saw on social networks how the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz are 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 a memory.
Our elderly people also would not understand the criticism that ex-president Felipe González receives on the networks, who they probably voted for, to say what he thinks.
They would not fail to be surprised by that woman with the handbag and the scarf screeching, without more or less, as a form of protest in a square. Or with Paco González and Josep Pedrerol, whom they heard on their transistor, talking, getting wet, about politics.
A part of the generation that made the transition might indeed 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 is proliferating on social networks these days and prudence is in short supply. Or, rather, the “serenity” that Miquel Roca defends. They are not fertile ground for moderation, but this is the state in which the silent majority of this country finds itself. That Spain so different that it doesn’t want to see the streets set on fire. Older people ask for moderation because they, when they were young, didn’t have it.
Democracy, which cost so much, is to debate. In the dictatorship it was not possible.
