"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time" (Abraham Lincoln)
The ideological line marks the actions almost as much as the actions define the ideological reality of the organizations.
Spanish nationalism finds no basis when it goes back looking for roots. A history full of patriotic lies and emotional inventions finds no support in the narratives made from other nations of the same events. Therefore, when Spain tries to base alleged rights to continue exploiting various nationalities that it appropriates, a cluster of oppressed nationalities is evidenced with the only link represented by the Bourbon monarchy and the chains of an army and police forces dedicated to safeguarding a non-existent unity. Therefore, the Spanish nationalist discourse is a mirage that lives in the clouds of Madrid, the military academies, the wide environment of its outdated royalty and falters where it clashes with progress, with new technologies, with new political concepts, with the project of the society of the future, because there is no integrity to argue what has no solid foundation.
When some Canary activists found themselves in trouble with the Portuguese army, their organization stepped up, facing the fact that it was an organized action. We are not talking about the fact that the Spanish consul was told to stay out of it and he had to; that the Portuguese navy returned us with all the protocol that the flag of the Canary Islands deserves, which was raised in Salvajes, with all the protocol and respect that a national insignia deserves. We do not proclaim facts that we did not have graphically documented, but we look after our own at all times, without falsehoods, without denying our status as independentists and our claims of sovereignty. Openly, with the truths as fists that give ideological foundations that go hand in hand with progress and are filled with the coherence of the yearning for sovereignty of any people.
Meanwhile, the government of Spain is capable of putting its army at the service of a private company, even attacking and injuring civilians for trying to demonstrate peacefully. But also, officially, it denies all the facts that appear in the videos, adhering to an official statement from the actor of the aggression who, cowardly, ends up questioning any historical document that comes from the interests represented by that monarchy, that imperialism-colonialism that historically they have called "centralism".
It is increasingly evident that behind the long failure of that invention they call "Spain" hides the interest of a minority. In the end, they veto the possibility of breaking with the frustration of not allowing countries to reinvent themselves and adapt to the societies of the 21st century. Right to emancipate, to decide on their present and future, or to seek social equality that loses its meaning in different nationalities forced to mark the same step.
Things are changing and it is not difficult to predict that any spare wheel will end up exploding in their faces. Neither Podemos, nor social democratic federalisms can prevent each day from ending with a new dawn.
Pedro González Cánovas, member of the Canarian Nationalist Alternative
