Denialism kills. And it brutalizes. Knowledge is something that flows through channels and that we access through nodes. The certainty I have that Einstein’s gravitation explains things better than Newton’s does not come from anything I have experienced, nor from my training in physics. I know that the light will come on when I flip the switch because there is a line through which the energy flows. The certainty we have about almost all the things we know comes from trust in the knowledge channels and their access nodes (schools, universities, books, documentaries, talks,…). Denialism appears to be ignorance, negligent obstinacy. But its essence is similar to that of the blowing up of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Its essence is to dynamite trust in the channels of knowledge. Knowledge is interrupted just like the flow of gas. If teachers, books and scientific consensus are part of a progressive lobby, if trust in the channels falls, we destroy the transmission of knowledge. There are no longer reasons not to cut down the Amazon, drill in the Antarctic or watch Malinche instead of reading a history book. Ignorance becomes active and talkative, prejudices run without restraints and profit breaks limits. Denialism is one of those ideological switches that activate many others. That is why it is one of the most beloved demands of the extreme right. That is why it was in the nature of the Valencia government not to pay attention to climate risks. There was a long bridge in a tourist area. And the right tried to undermine confidence in the AEMET. That is denialism. And that kills.
The hoax kills. The hoax is a short lie, easy to repeat and with a strong emotional charge, which is circulated so that the acolytes have language and appear many. They are not trying to deceive, they are trying to be a torrent that dilutes the truth. The desired effect is disbelief, emotional alteration and the reverberation of hatred. In a situation of calamity, they alter collective behavior and fill the instructions of authorities and technicians with interference. The proliferation of hoaxes from ultras liars, their dissemination in the conservative press and Feijoo’s unfortunate performance in the first hours only sought what the King said: chaos in tragedy. Neither Sánchez fled (one must be short of reasons for such nonsense), nor were dams destroyed, nor was it better with Franco, nor were corpses hidden, nor is Sánchez waiting for the budgets to activate aid. By the way, although the visit was a mistake on the part of the Royal House, the King this time was fine and was a recognizable symbol, and not the sphinx he was other times. To Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Lawfare kills. The PP blocked and infected the judiciary. Politics was taken to legal bodies intervened by the right. That is why the Constitutional Court declared the second state of alarm of the pandemic illegal. The episode was what it seemed. The extreme right files the appeal and the Court rules the illegality of the state of alarm as part of the conservative political confrontation against the Government. Lawfare. The state of alarm is the most versatile legal tool that the Government has to assume control in disaster situations. The Constitutional doctrine affects the management of what at that time seemed like it would never come: another catastrophe. I don’t know Sánchez’s motives, but in a situation like Valencia’s, political and social explosiveness must be handled carefully. We were facing more than two hundred deaths in a specific area and there was a Constitutional ruling that said that with hundreds of deaths a day throughout the territory, the state of alarm was illegal. More obstacles when more effectiveness is needed. Bring the meanness of the lawfare to disaster management kills.
Tacticism kills. In politics, tactics are tricks to achieve immediate political benefits without a global perspective. A sum of tactics does not make a policy or a strategy. Feijoo launched into tangles at the most heartbreaking moment of the tragedy. He ended up getting soaked with his own tricks. Sánchez will have to explain how much prudence and how much tactics there was in not assuming more command of the situation. We will see it.
The absence of the State kills. Many people jumping in to help was a moral beauty. Only the people save the people, it was said. Just as in the Scriptures water turns into wine, the bad baba ultra wanted to turn goodness into perversity. He wanted the goodness of the people to seem like the absence of the State and that goodness existed in the absence of the State. The people, saving the people, cannot take out all those cars, rebuild houses and roads, stop the stagnant water epidemics, replenish the economy of workers and companies, move firefighters and specialized army units, the people cannot achieve that before the summer Valencia be the first world again. It is the State, that is, the people when the people are civilization. It’s politics. I had cataracts. Neither science nor medicine saved me from blindness. Politics saved me, the gigantic management of resources that science and medicine put at my disposal and that of everyone. The ultras and their rich masters want there to be no State and for medicine to be like Bezos’ trip to space, just for them. If humble people continue not to go blind, it will be because one policy triumphs over another.
We don’t change the subject. In the US, the evil that here needed a calamity to be strident will be the touch of everyday life. It’s not that people believe that Trump is a Democrat, it’s that they think that, given what they have seen, democracy is not the priority. Explicit racism, brutal machismo, permanent hoax and the wildest denialism (Kennedy even promises to remove fluoride from water) are normalized as acceptable discourse. Hatred and selfishness will be the lubricant of social relations. Repression and lawfare are being installed for decades. Elon Musk It is not known if he believes himself to be Tony Stark from Ironman or Doctor Death from The Fantastic Four, but some metastasis of fascism comes with him. Valencia was a model to see the world that is leaving the US (volunteers, generosity and the State) and the one that is coming (listen to the intoxicating ultras, read the cave press). The evil that overflowed in misfortune is the one that triumphed in the United States without hiding. What happened in the US is unfortunately clear. About why and what to do, just a few strokes. 1. People identify the topics of democracy (freedoms, tolerance, rights, protection) as the burdensome and enervating discourse of this society in which they have been losing and losing for years. Mimicking Goebbels, they come to talk to me about rights and the environment and I pull out my gun. 2. The advance in the rights of minorities and their greater visibility makes these minorities (racial, sexual or other types) part of the decoration of this society in which they have been losing and losing. A sexist or racist outburst sounds fresh. 3. Among these minorities, acceptance of the speech that mistreats them increases. The identity affirmation is ceasing to mobilize. Why are you a Republican when you are gay?, is heard in The West Wing of the White House. Because my life is not exhausted or focused on being gay, he said. 4. The identity affirmation does mobilize the majority identity. No one cares about you because you are white, male, heterosexual and Spanish. That does mobilize. 5. No progressive message will work without voltage. Milei promised the humble that he would make them suffer and they voted for him, because the chainsaw was the music of their fury. The lyrics were not heard. 6. Attention to Bernie Sanders. Everything starts from social fury, from losing and continuing to lose. If the left-wing parties are not seen breaking their hearts for equality and social justice, everything else will triumph.
The rich get richer and the humble get poorer and they become outraged and the rich finance the extreme right to capitalize on that fury. Good play. Inequality grows in Spain with a left-wing government. That’s where it all begins. They are not two stories. Valencia was the board where you can see what moved in the US.
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