At the end of the movie Blade Runner, a character, the replicant, says: “I've seen things you wouldn't believe.” They are the ones he saw in space. But we don't know what he would say if he had also seen the things that are happening lately in Spain and his politics. All politicians in this country must still feel their bodies to make sure they are not living in a dream or a nightmare, a bath in the metaverse or a season in Orion, like in the movie.
Who would have thought, a year ago, that Feijóo would approach Junts, or these ones to Sánchez, and this one to Bildu, and almost all of them to Puigdemont in his Shangri-La, in the confines of the impossible. In politics everything is around the corner. There seems to be nothing impossible. Isn't it said that “politics is the art of the possible”? Phrase attributed to Leibniz, who also said that “we live in the best of all possible worlds” (how pessimistic).
The first sentence was later corrected by Charles Maurras, who out of supposed realism said that “politics is the art of making what is necessary possible.” But nothing more idealistic than that. What policy always does what is “necessary”? What is meant by this? It seems that we mortals are more clear about what is impossible than what is necessary. That is why the students of May '68 proclaimed: "Be realistic: ask for the impossible." So what is politics? Nothing better than Manuel Fraga's response: “Politics is the art of the possible: to achieve it you have to try the impossible many times.” He anticipated the motto of “resisting is winning” of Rajoy, Sánchez and Puigdemont.
The extremes touch and they alone, with or without a toad dinner, become strange bedfellows. It is also striking when in politics, invoking Max Weber from hearsay, it is said that "principles" must be set aside to adhere to "responsibility." Whoever believes it is naive. The politician does not follow either of the two things: what always follows is power. Life for many is boring and they need “things to happen.” But they don't have to look for them, follow the political news and they will also say: "I have seen things that you wouldn't believe."
