If I were Catalan
vientosur.info View original November 9th, 2017
I am not Catalan, I define myself as a leftist and internationalist, and for principles I can not assume nationalisms, therefore, I am not independent.
Having said that, I would like to specify:
1 st. That, feeling deeply democratic, I aspire for Spain to advance, sooner rather than later, towards a true participatory democracy, which overcomes the current representative pseudodemocracy emanating from the regime of 78, in which there is no place either for corruption or the kidnapping of sovereignty and public powers, by the economic powers.
2º. That, feeling a Republican of conviction, I did not vote for the Constitution of 1978, because we did not allow the Election of the State Model, imposing on us a monarchy heir to the Franco regime, for not guaranteeing an Aconfessional State and for not contemplating the Secularity of the Teaching, perpetuating the influence and power of the Catholic Church in Spanish public life.
3º. That, in his time, in favor of the "Democratic Rupture", and questioning the "Transition", to allow the "laundering" of the political and economic apparatus of the Franco regime, I understand that the Political Regime of 78 years ago entered a evident process of decomposition, marked by the corruption of Spanish public life, and whose last rales we are attending today, so I consider that overcoming it is an imperative need for the political regeneration of our country.
Starting from this declaration of principles, I express from here my admiration and my deep respect for the Catalan people, their culture and their identity,
because I firmly believe in the dynamism and capacity of Catalan society to address the economic, political and social changes that the future Catalonia needs,
and that these capabilities make Catalonia the engine for building a modern, open, innovative and supportive Spanish society within a Plurinational Spanish State.
And this reflection would not make sense, if I did not exercise the exercise of putting myself in the shoes of many Catalan people, who in the street and in the institutions defend the "right to decide": some, independentistas by conviction; others, independentistas because, aspiring to a redefinition of the lace of Catalonia in the Spanish State, the lack of dialogue, political will and the "tancredismo" of the governments of the PP and the PSOE, has left them no other way out; and finally others, that without independent aspirations, share with them the sensitivity of Catalan citizenship to exercise their right to vote on their own future.
And Putting myself in the skin of these sectors of the Catalan people, supposes to ask me what my political position would be, before the "Procés", if I were Catalan.
Turning now to my initial statement of principles, stating the immovable and inflexible current Spanish political reality, absolutely "bunkerized", assuming that I declare myself a strong advocate of the "right to decide" Catalan citizenship, and understanding that the character civic-popular "Procés" would overflow the current political framework of Catalonia, and reconfigure the correlation of forces of the parties that now have presence in the Parliament, with these considerations, if I were Catalan, I have to admit that if independence allowed me to have theexpectation of the opening of a process that made possible the construction of a true participatory democracy, I would be an independentist;
