It happens like in Shakespeare’s theater. It is necessary to create absurd characters, beyond all logic, secondary characters trapped for life in their irrelevant role, to justify and mask everything that is absurd and contradictory in what is being told.
Very long ago, the PSOE was a left-wing party. No one can say, for sure, when it stopped being so. In fact, there are still those who consider that the socialist party continues to be a passably left-wing, traditional party. Readers of Spanish history books, including books by Ricardo de la Cierva, go back to the collusion of the PSOE with the soft dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera to discredit, from beginning to end, the leftism of this party, which, well Looking at it, it has been the only left-wing party that has governed our country.
But there are no longer readers of Spanish history books, because our history disappeared from bookstores when the creations of Pío Moa and César Vidal became bestsellers. This happened during Aznarism. Manuel Vázquez Montalbán called that period of our recent history the aznaridad; But, at that time, Aznar’s way of doing politics had not yet been petrified. It was happening in real time, like mortality when there is bird flu. Today, it is a geological layer, a substrate. It ends in “ism”, like everything that is studied.
In the Aznar years (blue shirts with white collars, mountaineer bracelets, tacky drugstore mustache), they gave a documentary series on the history of Spain on public television, based on a book by García de Gortázar, which began with Big Bang, the original cosmic explosion. It was the neoliberal way of remembering that we are a unit of destiny in the universal. Of the components of that generation of ultras, because they were ultraliberal, a few are still active, such as Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. They were modern gin and tonics in a glass (the chalice of the alliance with golfing) and, culturally, they were closer to Cosmosthe series by Carl Sagan, which by Ernesto Giménez Caballero, the content creator of Falange and his craziest phrases. I mean, they were close to Carl Sagan only visually. On TV, everything sticks. Ideologically, they were from the extreme right, both the secret one, which now provides them with their jobs, and the approximate one, which they have created telepathically, that is, the Alvises of the world.
There it happens like in Shakespeare’s theater. It is necessary to create absurd characters, beyond all logic, secondary characters trapped for life in their irrelevant role, to justify and mask everything that is absurd and contradictory in what is being told. The English playwright (of Czech origin), Tom Stoppard, explained it very well in his work Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. They were Hamlet’s two friends, who suddenly appeared in the castle, it was not clear what they were doing with that theater company, but it was all related to the plot despite them, and then they were killed, not even live, but on a delayed basis, because in reality they didn’t matter at all. Ruiz Mateos had no dramatic role in Spanish politics, other than his role as an extra. This is why Alvise has been so compared to the eccentric owner of Rumasa. It must be recognized that people from before had more depth. Ruiz Mateos stole a lot and big to get where he got. It was enough for Alvise to tweet. We have become very mindful about everything.
Santiago Abascal is also a Guildenstern or a Rosencrantz (they don’t even distinguish between themselves). It was demonstrated when he filed that motion of censure with the historic Ramón Tamames at the helm. Abascal did not realize it, because he believed that he was interpreting The revenge of Don Mendo; but, deep down, Santiago Abascal was nothing more than the skull of Yorick, the jester, in Tamames’ hand, full of political and biographical cemeteries. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez is a postmodernist, in the explicit sense of the term. That is, it is obsolete. People have already forgotten about Lyotard, about postmodernism, about all that. Now another thought comes to mind, less about reading, more about going to talks with video screens. For this reason, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has that retro, outdated air. It is a product of MAR’s late night. One of those grotesque monsters that appear in delirium tremens. All of Ayuso’s political content fits into a single Lina Morgan joke. The work that the popular people are representing in the community of Madrid is pure “táztica and monocle”, as in the popular sainetes of Arniches. In Spain, what is popular is not the voice of the people, but that of the master speaking to the servant.
While the PP can allow itself to be increasingly right-wing, the PSOE has never dared to be increasingly left-wing. Rather, the opposite. The survivors of the Transition consider that the PSOE stopped being left-wing when Felipe (later called González, also simply), removed the party’s Marxist label in an extraordinary congress. In high school, we also changed Novecento by Village People (two different ways of representing the people). Other witnesses of the Transition are more patient, and maintain that the leftism of the PSOE lasted until the NATO referendum. In general terms (pun intended), it is contradictory to be on the left and be in NATO. But the body can withstand whatever they throw at it. Until he can’t take it anymore. It was in this way that the term leftism was changed everywhere to the word progressivism. Much more versatile, where does it end up! To be progressive, you don’t have to be very left-wing. Furthermore, staff were convinced that social progress was not necessarily related to the left, and vice versa.
Once again the left has sunk to the left of the PSOE. It happens every now and then. The left’s main problem is that it is not right-wing enough. Socialists have always understood this. But it only works for them. What the left of the left has not understood is that it is not as left-wing as it is believed, no matter how much it calls itself progressive. Or maybe because of that.
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