Why do they call it a debate if they mean a fight?

Time will have to analyze the debate about the state of society in more detail, otherwise using predictable script. We must not be naive: any possibility of this discussion being constructive was less than zero. Paraphrasing Groucho with “for”. “Why do they call it love if they want to have sex,” we might say, why do they call it discussion if they mean fighting. In all honesty, it’s one of the dictionary meanings. But the bigger problem, other than making deals over your head, is resisting reality. They do not allow the truth, like padded cats, to spoil their pre-written verbiage. It is the ideal territory for those who understand politics as a battle of stories, polarizing emotional narratives.

Health is the most obvious case, as is corruption, but over time we will have to analyze the discussion. Let me remember something very delirious from the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25N. It’s an issue in which the majority, with the exception of Fox, are essentially arguing the same thing. Naturally, it would be very easy for PP and PSOE to understand each other. Look at what Juanma Moreno said: “To deny evidence is a tragic mistake. “We cannot allow mistakes, we cannot allow negligence, and we cannot let down victims or citizens…”

Well, that’s what the SWP scolded him for: “To deny it, to whitewash it, is ideological. And this is what the right and the far right do…” To link the People’s Party with Vox, and to present the Andalusian government as complicit or even self-satisfied in denial, is wrong. But this is what is interesting in the partisan tactics of staying on the barricades without the slightest understanding, without the slightest consensus, burning all the bridges. This is the case. And of course in this electoral path it will not change. On the contrary, every week it will get worse. With the face of a dog… but it is a crazy dog anyway, why do they call him Debate if they want to say fight.


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