As a result of Íñigo Errejón’s letter, his resignation and the circumstances that led to it, I have been thinking not only about his possible faults but, above all, about something much broader and that worries me more than his specific case. It is evident, and let’s go ahead, that any sexual assault is an assault too many, that no one has the right to force another person to do things that they do not want to do, no matter how important that someone is in national politics, in the world of art, sports or any other environment, but what really distresses me is that we are living in a society in which it seems that, when one reaches the highest political level, it is no longer possible to stay clean, to remain decent. , to remain faithful to the principles with which a career whose objectives were so desirable began.
Reading that letter one gets the feeling that moral corruption is inevitable when one becomes a top politician. And that’s what worries me. Doubly so, too. Because, if it is true that in ten years a young and idealistic man necessarily becomes someone focused on himself, who throws away empathy, who uses drugs to survive in the environment in which he lives, who confuses person with character, who sexually assaults a woman, we cannot allow our politicians to serve more than one term, at the risk of finding ourselves governed by corrupt egomaniacs who do not even respect the personal dignity of their neighbors and use them for their private relief, considering themselves higher than the rest of the population. On the other hand, it particularly pains me that he is a left-wing man who has spent ten years working, at least in words, for many of the objectives that I consider necessary for the entire population. With that, something similar happens to me as what happened to me when the first cases of pedophilia in the Catholic Church were made public: sexual violence is always a terrible crime, but when it is carried out by someone who considers himself a representative of God on Earth and is supposed to follow a strict moral code, things are infinitely worse.
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