Where were the "patriots" when their chosen ones plundered Spain?

Juan Rivera
Rebellion

In the Theater of Life the most miserable character
always voluntarily represents the role of slave.



We should not be surprised by the emergence of "Sociological Franchism" that in recent weeks has borne the Hispanic balconies monarchical flags. As the dinosaur of the tale "was always there", ambushed in the "placidity, normality and naturalness" (Mayor Oreja dixit) with which the sectors benefited by the Regime and the earmuffs that reduced the vision of Spain to the mental wasteland where it has always been placed by Conservatism.

The difference is that today they do not hide the identity and parade through the catwalk "One, big and free" with all the abolorios to game are these straps, bags, flags to the neck or wristbands. The only complement to the "prêt à porter Todo por la Patria", which they still do not dare to wear, is the easily recognizable harrier, despite the mantra "We are not fachas -excusatio non petita- we are Spanish".

What should lead us to think is the triumph in the current political reality of the intellectual dwarfism represented by that reduction to the absurd that deforms in an interesting way the image of Spain / Catalonia to spur the sense of tribal belonging ("A por ellos, oe, a por they oe / Espanya ens roba ... ") sold as the only sign of collective identity. Because the political narrative without shades of white and good (my postures) / black and bad (yours) are targeting popular sectors that, unlike of the aforementioned dinosaur, "should not be there."

And that myopia that stresses the Society can be terrible because if the snowball rolls and enlarges to become an avalanche, we can not guarantee with certainty how far the damages will come. As the saying goes "There is no deaf worse than he who does not want to hear" and to our disgrace the own shouting is accompanied by hearing loss to the opposing arguments.

The current situation has a lot of political esperpento. If we define the term following the example DRAE could be valid:

«Political genre encouraged by Puigdemont and Rajoy [the Spanish Right - the Procés / centralistas- independentistas ... gives equal] that by systematically deforming reality, recharging the grotesque and absurd features of the rival, while capping their own, get thanks to largely false arguments and to the excessive use of commonplace places and cynicism, to bring to light the worst of each house, while dismissing by traitors and weak appeals to dialogue and to seek meeting points.

Consumed in high doses - 24 hours of administration without rest in TVE or TV3 - causes the forgetfulness of the excesses, corruption and looting sponsored in the last decades by the central and autonomic rulers ".


Only in the key of sainete can appear embracados to the Constitution of the 78 who rejected it at the time. Without blushing they clean their butts with articles of social content while canceling the freedoms theoretically collected in her with gag laws and repressive.

Or see now disguised as unblemished vestals willing to offer "la virtut" for the sake of the "Independence of Catalonia" held by the governments of Gonzalez, Aznar, Zapatero, and Rajoy to implement, completely agree, without dissent or flags, the same antisocial measures or the same cuts / "retallades". Interchangeable, some to the sound of "Cheron, cheron, tacheron", others to the "Bon colp de falc".

 The Spanish / independentistas smoke curtains have covered the clear horizon of corruption until yesterday visible. Pujol can walk calmly, without booing, for the General Miter Round and even ask him if he needs the hammer to whom he broke the computers of the headquarters of the PP. That whose reform paid in black money today covers a huge flag.

The appeal to "We are the best" triumphs when it has been held for centuries by the coalman's faith, which makes us feel the privileges of the ruling class that we will never have.

The same belief system that considers the social structure immutable although its pillars are based on Injustice and periodically recovers the "Live the chains". Just as the object of worship is a rojigualda flag, quatribarrada stellate. Nor would he redeem a candle to the tricolor if in return the critical analysis is canceled.

As I do not watch TV3 although I get brushstrokes from the program Poland, I do not know if there is a fictional character that incarnates the "Catalan patriot". If I look at the "Spanish patriot" in the character Antonio Recio of the series "La que se avecina". The "Viva España, long live the king, live the order and the law" does not fall out of his mouth, even if he is willing to skip all legal obstacles if he gets his way.

At this moment in which the stoves of Barcelona and Madrid bake patriotic (even at the risk of some being scorched by the high temperatures), one would have to ask them before they harden further: "Where were your flags when the Governments that aupasteis plundered the country? How many did you wave to protest the evictions, the wild labor reform that left you with no rights or the "security" law that voids your freedoms?

The sentimental allegiance to a flag is very respectable whenever it is supported by the mast of a just society and that in the light show respect for the rights and freedoms. When it is compatible to display it with pride and to maintain with impunity the fiscal residence in Miami, the hidden property in a tax haven or that we are shaken as a weapon who clung to it were opposed to collective legal advances (divorce, gay marriage, nominal separation - for our disgrace in practice - Church / State), there is no respectability in its ostentation.

At the moment when energetic people are ready to give us a "Spanish" or "Catalan" card with the pretension to exclude those who do not share their argument, it would not be enough to take Dignity as a standard of behavior, which makes you row against and oppose the designs of the captains because you intuit that the ship, the ships, are being taken to a rocky coast where the easiest is to run aground.

And as a society it is always preferable to mutiny with the vote and the mobilizations before they sink.

Juan Rivera. Prometeo Collective / FCSM

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