“This is how freedom dies, with thunderous applause”
Senator Padmé Amidala, revenge of the sith
The sith have won. The lies, racism, incels, schoolyard bullies, misogyny, ignorance, fear, indifference, homophobia, transphobia, conspiracy theorists, anti-science and the most vulgar individualism have won. Those who deny climate change have won, those who take advantage of a catastrophe to sow hatred and lies, and the incompetents who go on a feast while the alarms sound. Those who put the price of gasoline before the reproductive freedom of their daughters and wives have won. All the millionaires tired of democracy and regulations have won and everyone else has lost, including those who voted for the winning candidate, who today is Trump but yesterday was Milei and who tomorrow could be any Alvise or Abascal on duty. In a world that is looking into the abyss, those who prefer to fall into the void have won rather than change their habits or give up privileges. And they have won because we have let them win, because we have not known how to close a single one of the cracks through which their speech, their lies, their hatred and their fear have been sneaking in. With a social democracy loyal to a logic of capital that died at the beginning of the century – which is no longer defended by either the great fortunes or the large companies that feel more comfortable with this revival of fascism – and a left that is between faint-hearted and finicky or huddled In its mini-trench of immaculate and inoperative all-or-nothing purity, we have left the entire playing field uncovered. Free way for bloggers, influencerstelevision presenters, tradwifes with a whistle voice and lifelong Nazis who run free like fawns with their push upstheir residences in Andorra, their propaganda against taxes, their culture of effort, their millionaire parents and their undisguised hatred towards women and racialized people.
We have a screwed-up scenario in front of us: climate change is already a threat to our lives, and this economic model no longer works as we perplexedly witness a genocide tolerated by the so-called Western democracies, and social democracy is an agonizing specter that clings to the 20th century and which for the moment is serving as a parapet in Spain, but which will not be able to hold out much longer, and is accompanied by a fatalistic and depressive left that has settled for the lesser evil and has abandoned any attempt to lead and champion an integrative, emancipatory and optimistic discourse. In front of us we have the usual profiteers and fascists who have come out of the cave in which they were hiding and who feed on exploiting the confusion of a lot of people scared and angry at this end of the cycle.
With these pieces on the chessboard, it is not surprising that malismo has won, especially when a part of society seems to have renounced the social use of the word as a political and pedagogical weapon. And no one wants to be the one to stop the racist brother-in-law who rants against migrants at Christmas Eve dinner so as not to ruin dinner for others; How lazy it is to always have to be the one to answer the co-worker who always makes a violent comment against women disguised as a joke, we will have to keep quiet so as not to get into trouble in the office during coffee time; and it is better to silence the WhatsApp group than to disappoint the one who has been sending memes for three days accusing Pedro Sánchez of having abandoned the Valencians because then it fills up with notifications and drains the battery. Having a few drinks with his colleagues, there is no one to tell José Luis that what he is saying about the chemtrails It’s utter bullshit because it’s Friday and you have to have a good time, better another beer. And so it is never a good time to talk about politics, because what is going to be achieved, because we are tired of our shitty jobs and we don’t want to violate others or argue and in the end all politicians are equal. And we remain silent and silent and silent, and the gap becomes increasingly enormous and through it racism, misogyny, lies, and fascism creep in. And that’s how they win, and that’s how they beat us. For our silence. It is these silences of good people, of that great silent mass that has renounced, that we have renounced, to raise our voices, to make people uncomfortable, to stand up, that feeds the beast of Trumpism and fascism. Mired in the chaos of the algorithm controlled by millionaire thugs and bots, and the rampages of Telegram and WhatsApp groups, we may think that our voices are lost or will be crushed by the mass of lies and hate messages. However, we must not forget that all of us are the otherness, we are the feminists, the environmentalists, the scientists, the queers, the firefighters, the health workers, the teachers, the nursing home workers who carried the elderly to the floor on their backs. from above to save their lives, the mass of volunteers who took shovels and buckets to clean mud and bring food and water to those affected by DANA, the workers who cleaned and fixed highways and train tracks in record time, we are the ones who They went out of their way to collect clothing and food paid for out of our own pockets without asking the color and nationality of those who needed them and we are the ones who pay our taxes to support the public services that make us freer, healthier, stronger. Let’s not be silent anymore, let’s make good people big and loud again.
“This is how freedom dies, with thunderous applause”
Senator Padmé Amidala, revenge of the sith
The sith have won. They have won the…
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