In Helm's Deep, cursed, abandoned and stripped of everything, the men of Rohan resisted the siege of Ísengard and Barad Dur, the infamous conspiracy of the two towers. Saruman the White and the Dark Lord Sauron should have annihilated them, but they failed. Podemos should have died in 2019, harassed by the deep state and its sewers, prolific in police, judicial and journalistic miasmas. Cursed, abandoned and stripped of everything, they endured the siege. This is how that story was told then and it is told again these days, when the listeners ratify what was already known. "History became legend and legend became myth," Galadriel recited.
“What has become of the rider and his horse? What, of the horn and the claim of it? They have passed like rain on the mountains, like wind on the prairie. The days fade in the west, behind the hills, plunged into shadow. How did we come to this?". King Théoden was the hero of the gorge, building an epic of resistance. Thus, Pablo Iglesias, who had shouldered the two electoral campaigns of that year, endured against forecasts above three million votes and entered the Government. Hero in the palisade.
An apocryphal anecdote of the North American natives tells that the warrior who achieves a great victory has to be sent on a suicide mission, since the virtues that must be merited for war and for peace are different, and whoever triumphed in one will not have to do it in the other. Iglesias left, yielding the scepter to the most dissimilar profile of himself among his loyalists, Yolanda Díaz. And he made it explicit in his farewell.
Since accepting the assignment, today's Vice President Yolanda Díaz has tried to overcome the framework of the citadel –Troya, Masada, El Álamo–, and settle into the dynamics of conquest: after the battle of Helm, Rohan, the kingdom of the horsemen, will be called out of its borders to help Góndor, the kingdom of the men of the South, and bring Aragorn to the throne of Isildur, vacant for so many years: the objective is no longer to survive but to reign over all of Middle-earth. “President, president,” Díaz listens wherever she goes. On the horizon, she will recover the four million votes.
Podemos, explained its general secretary, Ione Belarra, at the Citizen Council on July 9, must strengthen its identity, make its achievements a heritage – above all, the achievement of the coalition government – and become strong to be indispensable in Sumar. Behind closed doors, the tone of the leadership is cruder: “Everyone conspires against Podemos, nobody is trustworthy. The PCE is dangerous.” The dismissals of Enrique Santiago and Amanda Meyer, today numbers one and two of the Communist Party, from two ministries of Podemos speak of bunkerization, which is the least kind way of naming that closure of identity of Podemos. "We are indispensable." Like any political identity, it requires its ordeals and, as happened with the procés, Podemos commemorates the vile harassment, beatifies its victims cheering the evidence of infamy, listening to them.
“Gondor? Where were they when the Westfold fell? Where was Gondor when our enemies surrounded us? Where was it...? No, my lord Aragorn, we are alone”, repeated a king Théoden reluctant to ask for help in the gorge. Nor is Gondor willing to call for help in the tremendous hour, when Sauron's siege looms over his capital, Minas Tirith, the white city. Wounded prides in the kingdoms of men.
Podemos locks in, heroes of Helm's Abyss, and Sumar loses the obvious for not elevating the identity of the resistant, the aristocracy of pain, the political value of the wound of those who survived it all. Sad passions solidify, Iglesias demonstrated, but they do not arouse new sympathies.
The fate of men was resolved by a trickster wizard, Gandalf the White, who burned the beacons of Minas Tirith – the distress signal of Gondor – without the permission of Steward Denethor. And Rohan went to the fields of Pelennor, where the forces of Mordor would be defeated. The company of the Ring, consisting of a wizard, an elf, a dwarf, two men and four hobbits, managed to grease the rusty grievances of men. Between Podemos and Sumar, IU and the commons tried to do it. The most functional hinge Podemos-PCE was broken on Friday in the Ministry of Social Rights with the dismissal of Santiago. Podemos falls back over the abyss and the bridges narrow. Who will light the beacons today?
