As Pedro Calderón de la Barca said, “What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction". You only need to read the majority of the Madrid press or listen every morning, Jordi Basté aside, to the radio editorials of Jiménez Losantos, Alsina or Herrera, to see to what extent we are in another of those times where the right does not achieve power and Their media environment wants us to believe that Troy is burning.
But it is that media environment that sets the agenda for PP and Vox. Not the other way around. And, at the same time, all of this conditions a PSOE, for which either that is already fine or it does not know how to stand out. This climate also affects an amnesty text that, as it reaches Congress today, without substantive amendments, is difficult to vote for the independence movement. Despite the shouting or precisely because of it and what it seeks.
Because this tension on the right, more than civil war, along the lines described in the film Brexit: The uncivil war, promotes an uncivil confrontation. And in the face of that, all caution is insufficient, when there are those who are calling for little less than crusades against the infidels, here reds and separatists.
And while this media fiction keeps its political expression in a declarative frenzy and mobilizes a part of Spanish public opinion that moves from the shadows projected on the wall, in Catalonia the classics are also revisited.
No minimally exciting project on the horizon, led by anyone, starting with the Government. Only frenzy in the attack on the neighbor. And a general feeling, also in the media here much more harassed by political power than the other way around, that we will still have to spend a millennium flagellating ourselves by the theoretical shadows or fictions that would have been projected during the process.
But, in general, the Government and Parliament, silent. Although perhaps this will end now that we are entering the (official) election year and now that President Aragonès has decided to have his own Óscar Puente, granting the rank of almost councilor to Sergi Sabrià. Note that I do not see a mistake (on the contrary), both the position of vice-minister for him, and the promotion (verbally, because de facto she was already there) of Laura Vilagrà as vice-president. Not only can a president make this type of appointment perfectly, but others in his place did it before, to grease the machinery and to strengthen his troops.
But it would not have been superfluous that Sabrià, while beating the opposition, would have taken advantage of his first interview in office to round up, for example, those from Madrid who have mercilessly thrown dirt at the even greater Mossos, Josep Lluís Trapero. . Recent revelations in the press would have justified it. And that, perhaps, would have helped to outline the fiction that here we have a Government that governs and that knows who is in front of it. But that, also perhaps, would have been asking too much. Don't take it into account. Because, as Calderón concluded his mythical verse, “dreams are dreams.”
