They are the bad people, the unscrupulous creeps, the masterful cheaters. Donald Trump signs decrees against people and rights like someone who pulls the trigger. And even the most miserable rat in any pond in any country feels part of the winds that drive the new gyrfalcons. Until now it has never turned out well
Bullying has come to power. In the United States and in other countries, in some more – like ours – it brings it closer to where its attempts have not yet reached. The bad people, the unscrupulous creeps, the masterful tricksters, who covet the scepter of command to suck the soul of societies and feed on it and survive like Draculas. Donald Trump signs decrees against people and rights like someone who pulls the trigger. His court of oligarchs enjoys the power that has arisen because they barely have any more money to covet or time to spend what they have, or to buy new stimuli. They encourage each other in the wide world. And even the most miserable rat in any pond in any country feels part of the winds that drive the new gyrfalcons. The old ones, the usual ones, who have come to the surface to show themselves and settle down.
From time to time they try and now they are reaping the harvest of a prepared sowing in ignorance and selfishness. We already know this. Until now, it has never fully worked out for them. They have been built on millions of deaths and destruction, on the pain and anguish of multitudes of people, but they have not yet managed to return us to the caverns of that time machine that HGWells devised with that future of foolish Elois, food of the evil and grim. Morlocks.
It won’t turn out well, not even for them… if logic still works at all. The essential falls under its own weight. Cooperation works best in social groups, including Nash game theory, Nash equilibrium, where at least no one loses if they play their cards. Of course, the tyrants of this era – and now there are many and with accomplices among the victims – do not care in the least about the pain they cause. Nothing. Neither Trump, nor Musk, nor anyone from his government or his voters feel the slightest pity for the immigrants now treated like vermin to be killed and persecuted even in churches and hospitals in that reign of terror, in which Trump calls for the denunciation of the officials who do not follow their inhumane orders. He’s a convicted felon, it’s not that weird either. Much more so in the case of his dumbfounded voters.
Or like here. The right slaps the Government to see if they can overthrow it once and for all… in the face of millions of pensioners, users of public transport or energy bonuses and many other social measures that especially hurt the right. Neither PP, nor Vox, nor Junts give a damn about the elderly. See Ayuso, girlfriend of Alberto Quirón, the commission agent, who has a judge who looks like his travel agent. I will not stop insisting that their absolute majority after the protocol of shame in the residences defines the ilk of Madrid society. Not all of them, of course, basically there were only a million and a half voters.
It is true that the commotion over the rejection of the omnibus decree has made the right react and come out in terror to make excuses because even their faithful voters have been startled. Now they are backtracking in the clumsy way they usually use: lying about content that is not in the decree, in the most bizarre way like Feijóo or Ayuso, demanding like Gamarra an extraordinary Council of Ministers “a la carte” to vote on pensions, because Although they do not govern, they believe that they must choose how to govern, and even announcing the collection of signatures. The tremendous thing is that they have rushed to put it into operation immediately and with the help of a very smiling Cuca Gamarra, who has had no qualms about it.call “the unions” to ask Sánchez “to get off his ass with the pensions”. It’s pathetic. A real dirty policy to call citizens idiots. Their media presents the setup clearly: “The PP launches a collection of signatures to demand that Sánchez raise pensions,” headlines El Confidencial. And adds: “Genova goes on the offensive in the battle for the story with the Government after overturning the omnibus decree and activates a “parliamentary and social” mobilization to accuse the Executive”. It is assumed that the rest of the media clan will follow that line that had already started on the ABC cover.
It’s more than bearable. They wanted to kick the Government and they themselves have kicked themselves in the rear. That was the objective of overturning the decree and no other. It included stopping evictions, increasing the SMI and continuing with the electricity subsidy and it is too much for the right but the main objective was the Government and the balloon has burst in their faces… and in that of millions of Spaniards who are still very worried. Doubly so if they reflect deeply and see to what extremes the Popular Party can go to seize power at any price.
If we don’t want to wander around like Elois waiting for the Morlocks to bite us, we will at least have to remember the users of this planet and explain to the young followers of fascism – in particular – why it is not a good idea to go around as thugs. life trampling on the staff. An excellent report by Ángel Munarriz, now in El País, pointed out the strong implementation of the extreme right as an ideology of men between 16 and 24 years old. The number of those who see climate change as a problem has decreased in that section. Their “concern” about immigration has increased.
No matter how much fascism lets sick elderly die without medical assistance – like Isabel ‘Quirón’ Ayuso – or stops financing chemotherapy for cancer patients, like the Argentine Milei, etc., you will not get services or money to pay for expensive treatments to deal with really serious ailments. Milei already foreseen the sale of organs to pay for his life or whatever is needed. He has a limit to survival that the clan’s gang of satraps don’t care about. It is unknown how all this will end. Public services are necessary to live in society. The jungles for the rich of the current Trumps have many loopholes. Not all of his followers fit, especially the stupidest ones, and you have to be stupid to swallow his stories.
Health, work, livelihoods, housing, education, transportation… do not work because of the law of the jungle, which was abandoned many centuries ago for a reason. No one seriously thinks of everyone making their own sidewalks for walking and equivalents. I don’t even mention pensions anymore, see the Vox program and the practice of Ayuso, and the rest in other countries. People are squeezed in their work lives and when they stop being productive and only “spend” they are no longer useful. Is it understood?
Studies say that one of the main causes they cite in the fascist involution is feminism and sexual diversity. Machitos believe that women they have gone too far by thinking that they are equal to men and have the same rights. That they are fine to have fun with them – by mutual agreement or by force – but not to the point of thinking about a total equivalence.
We are not equal, nor are women and men equal to each other. We have an exceptional privilege that they lack and that is freely accepted. Personally, in a life of many efforts, I have had several enviable privileges, I know. Working in journalism as an essential public service before greed debased it in certain sectors, being a direct witness of peak moments in history, having met exceptional people and, above all, having been the mother of a son who fills me with pride. How lucky to have the ability to create and light a life. How bad the mothers of sexists, of fascists, of those who twist the truth and poison public life with lies, of evil and unworthy beings, must feel. I hope it’s not too late when those already attached to all this rubbish find out.
This time of darkness in which science, justice, empathy, generosity, poverty or vulnerability are pursued, will pass. We do not know what embers will remain, but we do know that in the face of the cowardice of the settled people who are part of the problem – oh, this EU that is so understanding and militaristic – there are people who are going to resist. There are Democratic mayors in the United States who will not persecute immigrants, they say, and that if they have to go to jail, they will go. A judge has provisionally blocked Trump’s decree ending birthright citizenship in the US. Let’s not rule out the clash of egos and hatred – it has already begun. Poetic justice… or in prose.
I recently saw the movie El 47. The neighborhood fight with results… and with risks that overcome bravery and the sum of wills. In this country we have achieved many things, even when the mob ruled that now seeks power at all costs and there are millions of young people who are not fascists and want to change things and improve their lives and those of others.
“Dignity is the fight for water, the fight for electricity, the fight for postal services, the fight for public health and education, that is dignity,” they say in the film. It is the fight for democracy, for Human Rights. Fascism that fights all this is a terrible idea.
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