“Democracy came from people fighting in the streets, from anti-fascists, who sacrificed their lives for the rights we enjoy today,” Belara says. Well, there are also people who believe that Elvis is still alive. I encourage Belara to study the Franco regime … Because it is a complex and exciting historical period. Unfortunately, I belong to that generation that did not learn it in the classroom. The course always ended there and there was no time to get to the topic, which was solved through volunteer work or “do it yourself”. Everything was modern – I was born in 78 – so I think no one wanted to get involved in topics that many families were not yet ready for.
So I had to study it on my own. I must say it is a very interesting topic. Both Francoism and Franco’s personality are very complex and deserve a rigorous approach. But people like Belara don’t want to know what happened; They would rather broadcast forty years of history with the paltry depth of a false tweet. Just like the nostalgic neo-Francoists, who know less about Franco than Pillara and who resolve everything in the same direction, but in the opposite direction. They will tell me about the respect for the facts that must be in place to ensure that democracy comes to Spain through anti-fascists in the streets. It is also not true that “the rights we enjoy today,” as he put it, were a “socialist victory,” as Sanchez asserted. These rights were brought about by the Constitution, which is the work of conservatives, Christian Democrats, liberals, communists, socialists, falangists, atheists, Catholics, centrists, monarchists, and republicans. Including most of the movement. Or will we take the credit from Suarez and Fraga now? Democracy, like constitutions, is the work of the elite – unlike populism – a compact of reconciliation that emanates from the top down and, as a result, only penetrates the popular classes, although social pressures inevitably conditioned the process so that everyone conceded more than expected. Its success derives from its elitist character, in the same way that the current situation in Spain derives from the fact that the elites have abandoned and preferred to care about Instagram rather than its historical responsibility.
Spanish democracy arose from the desire to reform the Conquest part of the twilight regime, under the leadership of Juan Carlos I, Suárez and Fernández Miranda and with the support of the entire country. You may not like this, but it is the truth and you should know it. This week we’ll talk about Franco again, although part of the right is uncomfortable. Not for me. I think it is necessary to do so, not only to never return to it, but to not let the left have a monopoly on truth and decency. But above all, so that everyone may learn the truth that education deprived them: if peace came, it was not thanks to the infidels, but in spite of them.
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