Sesame Street generation

The ABC has reminded us in recent days of a key date for understanding a Spain that moved from dictatorship to democracy through a remarkable political balancing act. The same comparison is always resorted to, but not much is done … Told in film and television about an exciting moment in our recent history. Certainly, if the House of Representatives had been in Washington and the fathers of the Spanish Constitution had named Johnson, Jefferson, or Kennedy, we would have had a film library to hold José Luis Garcí himself. But it is a period that, over the years, remained forgotten, which facilitated reinterpretations far removed from any historical data or standards. Most important of all, it broke the general consensus that had developed in Spanish society that things had been done well and that we had politicians who were up to the task. Only half a century has passed since then, but looking at the present, anyone would think we have passed a thousand years. The alleged participants sang “How We’ve Changed.”

I belong to the Sesame Street generation, those of us who were practically born with the Magna Carta under our arms. We were and still are very lucky to live life freely, without black and white memories, despite difficult periods like Etta’s lead years. However, I remember how the elderly recalled the 23F incident with a shade of fear in their eyes because it was more than just fear. It was a look into the past that this fledgling democracy could not afford, causing many to improvise a suitcase that night.

Perhaps because of this latent fear, I appreciate the greatness of the transformation that has enabled rival politicians to sit at the same table, with positions far more contradictory than those taken today by the two main national parties, unable to reach the consensus that society has actually signed up to on a daily basis.

If 50 years ago many Spaniards had clung to the monarchy as if it were the mainmast of a ship that had just sailed towards an uncertain future; Half a century later, many of these infants and young children, who had only cared for Espenite and the witch Aphrea, now turned to the figure of Felipe VI in the face of the decline of political life. His conciliatory example in the face of deafening noise; His model, which he carries within his family, does not divide this country, but rather expands it.

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