If you have seen the movie Civil War, where the United States lives under the effects of a terrible civil war as the final stage of a broken nation, you will surely have been impressed by the scene in which a group of journalists are held back by soldiers who are filling of corpses a common grave. One of them, pointing his gun at them, asks the reporters: “You guys, what kind of Americans are you?” The film does not talk about ideologies, so what is impressive is that this is irrelevant. What that crazy man is asking them is if they are good Americans or one of the others. Hate is the engine of conflict in a polarized society.
The writer Guillermo Altares published an article in El País referring to this sequence that referred us to the assault on the United States Capitol, and wondered if it is not beginning to be seen on the horizon of Spain: “A drift is breaking us as a country and as citizens, and the time has come to think about how to stop it.” It is true that we have not yet seen guys with naked torsos and horns on their heads entering Congress, but every day we witness the speech of other crazy people who, from certain media outlets in this country, exude the same hatred.
Yesterday, the day dawned under the effects of the continuity of Pedro Sánchez, after his five-day break locked up in the Moncloa to reflect on his future. And of course criticism is healthy in democracy and it can be interpreted that Pedro Sánchez, more than an act of love for his family, has made a final tactical move. But the fact that the director of the digital El Debate affirms that Sánchez has bought the tickets to end his political career in the most tragic way possible is not only a threat, but also seems like a discard from Alex Garland's film.
Sánchez proclaimed that he was staying to regenerate politics, but he did not tell us how he was going to achieve it. This country tolerates discrepancy increasingly worse. Ideological distances are widening dangerously and we see those who think differently as evil. It will not be easy to get out of the spiral of hatred. Any day someone will ask us on the street, with bad intentions, what kind of Spaniards we are.
