Ignacio Camacho: End of the exercise – kudupinter World News Network

Christmas, that is to say the celebration around the birth of Jesus, Advent in the Christian calendar, is already over. There remains what we call “Christmas”, the vacation time, the lighting of urban space, the innocent declines, the cheesy hubbub of New Year’s Eve and … the sweet and venial lie of Kings with their gifts, child’s play compared to this age of dissimulation and deception. The rest is in the past: the lottery with its lucky ones uncorking bottles of cheap cava, the Christmas Eve family dinner, the midnight mass, the Crown speech preaching harmony in vain. End of exercise: we can now get back to work. Everything and any case is valid, even the “balthasars” painted black in the parades of the mages.

It is important that polarization is not limited to strict politics. This is nothing more than a legitimate discrepancy. A good wall is of no use if it fails to transform daily life into a civic confrontation steeped in sectarianism and ideology where any manifestation of tolerance or respect is prohibited. We must succeed in politicizing the questions that seem the most insignificant, to prevent an issue, however insignificant, from being left aside in the fight for the flags. Religion, traditions, social rituals, cultural events; If we succeeded with the innocent crèches or the Cycling Tour, we are not going to abandon higher category subjects.

This schismatic passion was not invented by Sánchez, even if he took it to the extreme. It is an old national custom which reappears from time to time like a plague; Cernuda already deplored the “eternal Cains”. The Transition has succeeded, not without effort, in creating certain spaces for meetings thanks to the collective hope of the end of the dictatorship and the creation of a new regime, but it is already far away. What the president did was spread, with populist techniques, the virus that had already reappeared during Zapatero’s term, and thus ensure that the confrontation continues, with modified roles, when the government loses. Once demons break loose on the streets, it is usually very difficult to contain them.

This is why there is not much hope of climate change when Sanchism falls. In this half of the Spaniards who rightly feel overwhelmed and subject to an authoritarian drift, there is brewing a dangerous spirit of revenge that the institutions very degraded by the denaturalization suffered at this stage will have little to curb. It will be difficult to rebuild so much damage in the midst of a terrifying crisis of citizen confidence. In order not to betray the spirit of Christmas, there remains the resource of the presentist vitalism of this leader of the Asterix tribe of the Gallic village: thinking that even if the sky will end up collapsing on our heads, the catastrophe does not necessarily have to arrive tomorrow.

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