The scariest words in English are: “I am from the Government and I am here to help”. I regret that in these unfortunate hours of horror, indignation and impotence, with toothy bastards professionally dedicated to politics in Spain, I evoke Ronald Reagan’s famous phrase. Replace English with Spanish, and put the phrase in the mouths of any of the useless and mean people who throw themselves dead at the head.
They are not far behind millennial troop of fools on social networks, gregarious and fanatics of the left and right, who are incapable of accepting immorality and the mediocrity of their own leaders, sad as it may be. “I don’t want to be an American idiot/A nation controlled by the media/The age of information hysteria/Is calling America an idiot.” This time it is the lyrics of a Green Day song that puts so many idiots on both sides of the ocean in situation who, truly indifferent to the tragedy, shovel not the mud from the streets, but the mud of their miseries.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Trump and Harris are gambling. The United States represents the essence of emotional polarization, of structural misinformationof information hysteria. Rational and representative democracy has given way to a morbid and compulsive democracy, in which absurdity and extravagance prevail. But beneath the surface of polar sentiments, Harris and Trump exhibit two different understandings of their patriotism.
While Trump aspires for the United States to once again be the great nation of the original American dream, in which he does not hesitate to loosen ties with his old European partners by imposing additional tariffs on foreign trade, Harris develops, with a certain ambivalence controlled, in the defense of a multicultural nation, inclined to redistribute income and increase public spending in areas where Biden has failed miserably, such as dependency. Actually, I have no doubt that both are willing to dope the economy with aggressive fiscal support and maintain unsustainable budget imbalances. Even if they don’t recognize it, they are equal.
Everything will happen in the next few hours. It is true that the United States, with the pandemic, ceased to be that plenipotentiary country that led all international crises. And it is also true that, since then, they have been looking for their place in the world. Trump and Harris have the answer. And Europe is waitingalthough we Europeans have been waiting for a long time, as if the answer had to come from outside
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