Carlos Herrera: Boredom, disenchantment and disaffection

The three marias of today. Weariness of a ruling political class which, even if chosen on purpose, could not be worse; disenchantment in realizing that each day that passes only worsens the situations we have to face; disaffection for having abandoned all hope that … Politics is the noble exercise that allows society to progress in an orderly manner. Good diagnosis from the King. Logically, this 3D x-ray will not be heard by the one who is undoubtedly the protagonist of the royal speech, the big turkey who presides over his government and who has taken two weeks of vacation. Fifteen days. Two weeks without supporting its hollow facundia is also true, which provides some relief.

Only the most emotional aspire to live in a mobilized society with flowers in their hands while they smile towards the future in manifestations full of happiness. The one that was so typical of Enver Hoxa’s Albania or Kim’s Korea. Social groups are generally aware of the eternal difficulties that all generations encounter, but it happens that today there is no longer an exciting common task as there was in the years to which the King refers and that those who aspire to destroy what cost so much to build want so much to dynamite. The desire for Transition is essential, even to those who have not experienced it. Today, the majority of speeches from the Sanchist bloc – which constitutes a slim majority in Congress, but a majority – establish a so-called paradise in the Second Republic. Felipe VI saw fit to characterize these years as a period to which we should not return. As long as these eras are rigorously studied, anyone with half a brain would agree with the king’s call for caution. The reactions and interpretations of the speech are almost as interesting as the words of the head of state. With the exception of Cristina Narbona on behalf of the PSOE – who is delighted to have launched an alert against “populism” – and with the expected approving reaction from the PP, the rest of the political groups, through the voice of their stupidest spokespersons, have made real efforts to stand out in the disqualifying theatricality and in the permanent ridicule of the conspiracy, looking for what is not there to disqualify the monarch. A particular stupidity was manifested in the independence ranks and in the communist formations, which is not new. Reading the absurdities of Irenes Monteros or Enriques Santiagos, listening to the well-known idiocies of Junqueras or Turulles only confirm that the king was right when he suggested that democracy cannot be defended by weakening it nor is it supported by arbitrariness. He directed two missiles against corruption and against the wall erected by Sánchez to divide the Spaniards: the socialists cannot pretend that they did not hear him. In the year when everything was theoretically going to be about Franco, the monarchy showed its constitutional usefulness.

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