How innocent it sounds: "With you, in Spain this is now a simple public disorder...". It was the way in which the PP parliamentary spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, responded on Twitter to the official account of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, when he condemned the attempted coup in Brazil. An innocuous comment – tendentious, certainly, because the rebellion continues to be harshly treated by the Criminal Code of the European country that has experienced the most reactionary military pronouncements between the 19th and 20th centuries – that, however, to the villagers, as is the case, It set off alarm bells. Not even because of the punctuation: because of the familiar name. The opposition spokesperson, who is not known to have a close relationship with the legitimate President of the Government, launched her political criticism at him from a toothpick in the mouth, brass bar, farias and Sovereign glass. The signing villager was pulling his hair out.
In social networks, manners are conspicuous by their absence, it is known. One only has to look at Xokas, a very famous streamer who, every time he opens his mouth, looks for a problem that he does not need and who usually lives on the edge of the reputational apocalypse, simply because he does not see the distinction between public and private communication.
It is a generational trait and perhaps also the reason for the success of this new type of communicators: the crudeness with which they manifest themselves, the frankness with which they expose themselves, which adds a dramatic element to their live shows, as if you were waiting for the imminent disaster. waiting for someone who drives at breakneck speed with one hand hanging out of the window. It is impossible to stop looking. But after all, Xokas does not speak for us, militants of that bourgeois social conquest that was the civilizing boundary between the private and public spheres. So it doesn't matter if we see him insulting his parents like he was drunk in a bar and we are convinced that the poor man is ruining his life. Maybe not.
The same works for anonymous Twitter profiles, and for this reason one of the common temptations is to respond to them with the same uninstructed mule accoutrements, without stopping to think that it is an account with aliases and an avatar of the Joker, Clint Eatswood or some sculpture. ancient philosopher. In the parliamentary rostrum, a couple of weeks before, the leader of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, spoke at length about you to ERC and PSOE, to the blush of the daily session.
Some will wonder why this great-aunt's primness. The reason is simple: democracy is formality and nothing else. It is institutional respect for the winner when he loses, it is reverence for the government of the most and respect for the dignity of the least. Tuteo is Trumpism. And in the case of Gamarra –she may not know it– it is the way of emphasizing that the defeated right wing does not respect the sovereign decision of the ballot box. That tuteo, although it may not seem like it, is the prelude to the assault on Congress in January 2024.
