Dear democracy:
We have been talking for some time about the undisguised pretense of the right (and its extreme) to fix its little democratic criteria within the institutions.
It does not matter what the truth, the facts or the debate is, the fundamental thing for the anti-constitutionalist parties is that it smells like burnt gasoline during the plenary sessions, emulating the vice of singing by Miguel Ríos, which evokes politics itself with that “I barked more than I could, without saying anything.”
And in this context it is very clear that the quality of a democracy is also measured by the dignity and loyalty with which its institutional actors behave. I believe that there can be no ambiguity in the face of those who question or directly damage the democratic coexistence to which they have us accustomed, because having a high-level political discussion, leaving short-termism and thinking about the general interest, is not that difficult.
The biggest disadvantage is that our right prefers litigation to dialogue, which is why a divorce by mutual agreement with “the truth” occurred some time ago. For those who value politics, there is a tendency towards the language of respect, combating all types of insults from a tribune, where sometimes mixing bacon with speed is the perfect cocktail for some to generate a discourse of hatred that has nothing to do with the vocation of public service. Because this violence is the one that generates the most.
Faced with the simple ideas and malicious messages of populism, there is the value of the word and the best medicine prescribed by Galeno: Education.
It is difficult to think of a new contemporary-political religion with concepts such as “cuts in social and egalitarian rights” as the main commandments and that they freely expose it in rallies under the equivocal wildcard of political tension and the privatization of the public. Not for nothing, but because voting out of fear seems to me to be the most cowardly and the most counterproductive.
Only bad thinkers and bad politicians aspire to speak only of themselves. Only those who think that creating a “sun tax” is something new, that repealing the law on equal marriage is advancing in rights or that giving away a beer is synonymous with “freedom”, are certainly the only ones who should have gotten into the famous Delorean to return to the past along with all those archaic ideas that generate social regression.
The main risk of politics is not so much in the content of the message, but in the fact that they do not admit a response. So, I have bad news for the right: Everything is getting better.
Pensions have risen fairly, contrary to what happened with 0.25%, the SMI is raised, 434 million are transferred for primary care and the social shield works. In addition to a long, positive etc.
"Mr. President, stop bothering good people," Feijóo told President Pedro Sánchez in the Senate, who presented himself with the announcement of the approval of the largest scholarship budget in history: 2.52 billion, 70% more than the last PP government. With that statement, does Mr. Feijóo then consider that students who are trained thanks to scholarships are not good people? Are pensioners not good people? Is someone who receives the SMI not a good person? Or is someone who receives the IMV not a good person?
Who are the good people for Feijóo? The large companies that declare extraordinary profits as a result of the war and, therefore, oppose the temporary tax to tax those profits. Those are his good people.
The focus should not be on whether having rights depends on your checking account, your postal code or the color of your skin. Because then we are not talking about rights, but about privileges. Especially for young people, this government is betting on you. So paraphrasing the Latin expression "Eo ipso" (for that very reason), there are different ways of seeing politics, from the perspective of transformation with social policies or from the negative questioning of everything proposed.
P.S: With the great challenge of making social rights and diversities of all kinds compatible, the only answer is more and better democracy. Long live good practices.
Jenifer Galán Duarte,
