I grew up, forgive me, thinking that civic virtue resided in the fair middle point, the weighting, the pact and the renunciation of what the heart asked of us – because everyone has their own – in exchange for what reason advised, that she is the only one who can make us all agree.
That’s why I felt proud going around the world when our reconciliation after the dictatorship was praised… Do you remember?
And when another great pact between democrats put an end to terrorism and made our country predictable for investing, then able to generate some shared prosperity, and thus finally stop being North Africa, Venezuela or Argentina. ..
…For almost everyone except for a radicalized minority, which now, despite losing 25% of its votes and one seat in relation to the last elections, suddenly appears to have become the winner – with only 1.6% of the votes cast – and imposes its conditions.
I must have missed something, in the end, because, suddenly, and due to the death of two deputies in more than one of the 16 general elections we have had, the ideological positions and the reasoned praxis that made it possible appear as losers. Can a single investiture in extremis be more important than 45 years of successful democratic reason? Allow me to praise her, even if it doesn’t add up?
If only power counts and power is only that of the last vote, my radical friends in the Spanish ultra-right and pro-independence parties are right to gloat at seeing themselves now vindicated; and the moderates, by depressing us, like the blessed supporters of the negotiation in ERC by seeing themselves advanced by the extra-constitutional extreme not only by Sánchez, but also by Feijóo, who by asking him for talks has made it respectable to hit and run of Waterloo, which has thus gone from being a loser in quantum superposition – neither here nor there – to a magical winner in quantum imposition everywhere.
Feijóo and Sánchez defeat Moncloa in a time trial with or without a second lap in an open grave. And one would say that one or both of them will bury their future there. Hopefully it’s not everyone’s.
