This weekend marked 13 years since the general strike of 2010. It was the end of the Rodríguez Zapatero Government and the crisis was beginning to make the situation of millions of families unsustainable. No one on social networks remembered the ephemeris. The fact that today Spain is not faced with a similar protest is essentially due to two reasons: the different response promoted by European governments to the pandemic and inflation, understanding the situation and making more right decisions than wrong ones, and the creation of positions of work It is true that unemployment is still high and is one of Spain's major economic problems, but the fact that there are more and better wages is a key element in understanding the moment.
Today there are no serious economic turbulences like those of 13 years ago, but there is a political atmosphere that is starting to become unbreathable. The noise has settled in the political debate and there are days when you can't talk about constructive confrontation, but pure mud.
The PP would do well, for the good development of politics, to stop the leaders who justify scenes of harassment of Óscar Puente in the AVE. Vox would do well to stop asserting that pro-independence parties should be outlawed. The PSOE did well to fulminate its former councilor in Madrid, Viondi. Pablo Iglesias is no longer there, who was always accused of being a jerk when it was he and his family, in reality, who had a group of bullies at their front door for weeks. No mockery is allowed. The problem is that Congress is no longer surrounded, anti-politics is now taking place inside.
During the last legislature, Vox coined a term to refer to the coalition Executive: "Illegitimate Government". They repeated it time after time, even during the worst of the pandemic. That was silent. Last week, a similar qualification emerged from Feijóo's investiture debate: "Government of lies". Yesterday he insisted. This road is dangerous; it is as if politics had been entrusted with the hyperbolic atmosphere of social networks.
And the worst is yet to come. We are approaching weeks of strong agitation, superlatives, hyperventilation... Of disaffection, in short. The possible amnesty law will cause even more bends and the vehicle may derail. Because what the PSOE is negotiating is a government for four years. Until the end of 2027! There are some that can be made long. This is why calm is necessary and that digital activism does not invade the political debate. We can regret it.
