The issue of the moment today, in Spanish politics, is not the nationalist emergency – a paper tiger – but rather the drift of the Socialist Party, which leads it, in my opinion, to move away from the sociological center, not so much because of what refers to its social policies, which are generally moderate, but with regard to the national question. Is this a novelty in your career or, on the contrary, is it a return to an old and sustained love? Recently, the notary José Marqueño de Llano, an old office colleague, told me: “Don't fool yourself; Felipe González's Socialist Party, which we voted for for so many years, was a parenthesis, an exception in the trajectory of the PSOE. Before this stage and after it, the PSOE has not been and is not a center-left party, but has been and is, depending on the moment, radical or populist in its ideology and, above all, in its tone and attitude.
Therefore, the authentic Socialist Party would not be that of González, but that of Pablo Iglesias Posse, Largo Caballero (not that of Besteiro), Zapatero and Sánchez. And this drift, as I have already said, is manifested today more in the territorial issue than in the social and economic sphere. And so we have to:
1) The PSOE, despite being, unlike the PP, the Spanish party with a more homogeneous implementation throughout the national territory, seems to believe that, under the name and image of Spain, only an ancient institutional fabric is hidden, a reactionary ideological repertoire and a bargain of the most vulgar and sinister jingoism, that is, an instrument of domination with which the right "has been established on the State for centuries", taking advantage of the country - its "farm" - for its own benefit.
2) The Socialist Party has not forgotten its defeat in the Civil War, and aspires to revenge through a biased interpretation of historical memory, today democratic memory.
Based on this double positioning, the PSOE orients its political action, starting from Zapatero, in a double sense:
1) The more or less covert review of the transition, which the PSOE at that time contributed so much to promoting. Which takes shape in a more or less overlapping questioning of the Constitution and the monarchy.
2) The desire for a pact with all those who oppose the regime of '78, be they populists, recycled communists (who would have thought! Don Indalecio) and, above all, separatists (that is, nationalists) of all stripes.
The cement with which this block forges is the erosion of the idea of Spain for two reasons: a) Because it is – as I have already said – a structure of oppression at the service of the “owners of the estate.” b) Because it is “a prison of peoples”, which prevents authentic nations (Catalonia, Euskadi, Navarra, Galicia and any others that come out in the heat of identity enthusiasm) from emancipating themselves to achieve the consecration and fullness of their national being before the international community. .
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I see it. And I understand, therefore, that the die is cast, then, before the majority coalition of socialists, radical left and Catalan and Basque separatist right (“We are more”, Pedro Sánchez said), the rest of the Spaniards can do little except denounce it , especially if “a wall” of discrimination and repudiation is raised against “the extreme right, the extreme right” and assimilated people.
In short, we are in an agonizing trance, in which I do not allow myself a bad word, a bad gesture, or a bad attitude. I just want to show my deep and hurt surprise at a fact that I cannot understand: How is it possible that it is precisely the socialist militants and voters who are preparing to make a clean slate of Spain, which today is not a framework of oppression, but an area of primary and immediate solidarity in which all Spaniards are equal? How is it possible that so many honest Spaniards, with right intentions and a spirit of solidarity, as the vast majority of PSOE militants and voters undoubtedly are, witness the destruction of their homeland undaunted? I respect these compatriots, but I don't understand them.
