A very moderate April I got up and running. If the previous column was titled the challenge, today we are going with the praise. It will be because of so much post-fallera and Easter hangover, it will be because of the recent Basque and Galician elections, it will be because of the experience of the Alcoiana Trilogy for Sant Jordi matatodos, it will be because of the imminent commemoration of April 25, the day for the freedoms of the Valencian People … that date commemorating the desfeta d’Almansa back in 1707. This day, also dedicated to our self-government represented by the Corts Valencianes, currently run by a denier of Valencian identity and other own and acquired rights.
Well, as I said, a few days very inspired by listening to a high-profile politician, an Adoni Ortuzar who summarizes and defines what a political leader attached to his land and his people should be and represent. The president of Euzkadi Buru Batzar, the executive of EAJ-PNV, focuses on the accurate position of a backbone party of a country like the Basque Country, always focused on self-government and its own reality, with the capacity to generate discourses exclusively dedicated to citizens Basque and without any contamination of that Madrid mixer that always emerges threateningly on the M-30. Bad political and media blender is made up of town and court…
But above all, very motivated that a high-profile intellectual like Chaves Nogales is being remembered on different fronts. From President Mazón to my boss Salva Enguix and in these same latitudes. That impossible Third Spain that has no one to write to it, without equidistants or propagandists. In these times of laws of concord or memory, which should not be exclusive in themselves, we return to a liberal republican reviled by both sides, like so many other moderates and even more so in this land with the admired LluÃs Lucia and his Dreta Regional Valenciana (DRV- CEDA).
Chaves Nogales was a liberal who drank from the Enlightenment and what was so little valued now and always called tolerance. And he advocated that exceeding the margins of moderation and dialogue was leading us, in those years of fratricidal lead, to tragedy. It seems that some voxeros have insisted on recovering those war-civilist impulses in the opposite direction of what Nogales advocated, with the risk that memory, history and harmony will be used to generate pain again. This is what happens when extremes impose his dogma and nullify liberal thought. Breaking up coexistence seems to be the disastrous tactic.
Populism always offers trompe-l’oeil solutions to complex situations, and in the face of this we only have one option, that tolerant and enlightened moderation that denounces and dismantles them. The difficult path, of course. Real political commitment, for the people and Valencia. Although Golda Meyer declared that all political careers end in failure…
