Professor Dalmacio Negro explains it very well. In Spain we usually confuse Government with State. The Government is part of the State but it is not the State. What has happened in recent days is a sign that in Spain we have a problem of misgovernment and not of the State. Our leaders are not up to the task of the nation.
No one can explain why it has taken so long for the Government, in its regional or national dimension, especially national, to bring help to those Valencian towns devastated by the flood. Neighbors have been helpless for several days and we have heard voices of indignation.
The State was slow to react, given the impotence of many of its servants, due to misgovernment. And faced with this reality, the neighbors have done as in the past, organizing and helping each other, along with a large number of Valencians who came to do what they could well. Parishes, associations, sports groups, Fallas camps, all have mobilized. Where the State did not arrive because of the Government, the people arrived.
Thanks to the media (blessed journalism) we have witnessed that great wave of solidarity. They say that our society is tense because of our politicians. Could be. These days, however, the Spanish have shown that there are more ties than they want us to see. God forbid that our representatives do not take it upon themselves to confront them again.
Seeing this neighborhood mobilization, and that of so many other Spaniards, I remembered those English and French travelers who toured Spain throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Leaving aside the usual clichés, those “impertinent curious people”, as Ian Robertson defined them, They conveyed to their compatriots that the Spanish were a great people poorly governed.; that their values (romanticism was at its zenith) were much better than those of their leaders. About Mío Cid: “What a good vassal he would be if he had a good lord!”
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