A long time ago, more or less since he declared his love for bonsai, Felipe González he started to get a face Yamamoto. Between his flirtation with NATO, industrial reconversion, the bodeguilla, the Roldanes and the GAL, his audience was gradually becoming disenchanted, convinced that they had sneaked in a plastic socialist converted into a Japanese robot. Neither the ideological betrayals nor the blows with gel nor the brothers of Alfonso Guerra: nothing better explains the fiasco that resulted PSOE government that the wedding of the super minister of Economy, Miguel Boyerwith Isabel Preyslerthe queen of gossip magazines. Oh, we believed it was socialism and it was a socialite.
Umbral defined Felipismo as “the red decade”, but today we know that it went too far with the color, that “the pink decade” would have been a much more precise name, not only because of the criminal frivolity of its mandarins but because of the symbolism of that anagram, which, more than a rose, was a full-fledged bud. It was also Umbral who said that an academic is a man who, when he dies, transforms into an armchair, but Felipe did not need a death certificate to metamorphose into a leather armchair in Natural gasa juicy public tit that he was sucking on for four years. He pocketed half a million euros before leaving his job because, he said, he got very bored there. Well-understood industrial reconversion begins with oneself.
Few details define the mandate of the two-party system such as the fact that, before coming to power, Jose Mari Aznar began to copy Felipe’s Andalusian accent and various iconic expressions, among them, “look at you.” As I have already commented on other occasions, the PP was nothing more than the continuation of the PSOE by other means, sometimes by exactly the same means. At that time, José Mari and Felipe seemed the antithesis of each other, but in reality they were the dialectical synthesis of the ’78 regime, in the same way that in the United States, Democrats and Republicans had always offered an illusion of an alternative as monolithic as the Party. Soviet Communist.
“The PSOE is no longer the PSOE” says Felipe, who is still that shell player of the referendum on NATO in 1986. Many naive people attribute these furious invectives to the ailments of age or a lack of medication, but let’s not fool ourselves: in reality , Felipe is younger than ever, two steps away from joining the Falange. Nine years ago he said that the Pinochet dictatorship respected human rights more than the Maduro government and he has been the PP’s boss for more than a decade.
Now the metamorphosis has been completed to such an extent that, among the avalanche of attacks on Sánchez’s government, it is difficult to distinguish which ones are from Felipe and which are from José Mari. It is a reissue in the flesh of that short novel by Stevenson, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hydewhere a scientist, in his obsession with separating good from evil, takes a potion that transforms him into a bloodthirsty criminal. One after another, film adaptations make the mistake of assigning both roles to the same actor, when it is evident, from certain details in the narrative, that the physical appearance of both is completely different. The similarity is on the inside, just like in the strange case of Felipe and José Mari, who in the end have practically become the same Chinese vase.
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