leo in where i’m from, the latest book by Joan Didion published in Spain, a vision of her native California far removed from mythology. Faced with the historical discourse on a land conquered by individuals with no other help than the grace of God, she shows us the seams of a state built thanks to enormous federal funds. A reality that Californians have preferred to ignore, better to see themselves as the victim of an oppressive state, hyper-regulated by unnecessary and corrupt politicians.
Nearly 300 years after Didion’s great-great-great-great-great-grandmother headed west, that old rhyme still resonates as much in America, where with the right music she was even able to get guys dressed as bison to storm the Capitol, as it does in the old, but not for that reason, sensible Europe.
The troubled river of the pandemic was a garden for this type of suspicious speech, like that stomach-churning “Hello, 2021″ in which the political class was attacked with the cry of “Spain needs a captain”; one of those proclamations that make you wonder if what you hear is longing for those four decades in which there were no politicians in the country.
Months later it was Ángel Martín who claimed to be “up to the tails” of politicians —he is our David Frost— in a speech as populist as it was cynical. And cynicism can have a certain appeal in youth, but from a certain age it only sounds like bitterness and misdirected frustration.
This Monday it was Pablo Motos who started with a cheesy and mellifluous vertebrate speech about “I don’t trust politicians, but I trust people”, which more than the opening of a program of talking puppets seemed to welcome a cryptocurrency congress. What some are seeking by encouraging the discrediting of politics at especially vulnerable moments —and ignoring that all the great social advances have been achieved thanks to its practice—, is for me a greater enigma than the success of the anthill. Because we all know that there are disastrous politicians, just as there are humorists without grace.
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