If you have seen the movie Civil war, where the United States lives under the effects of a terrible civil war as the final stage of a broken nation, you must have been impressed by the scene in which a group of journalists are detained by some soldiers who are filling a mass grave with corpses. One of them, pointing a gun at them, asks the reporters: "What kind of Americans are you?". The film does not talk about ideologies, so what impresses is that this is irrelevant. What that madman is asking them is if they are good Americans or other Americans. Hate is the engine of conflict in a polarized society.
The writer Guillermo Altares wrote an article in El País in which he referred to this sequence that clearly referred us to the assault on the United States Capitol, and wondered if it is not beginning to be glimpsed on the horizon of Spain as well: "A drift is breaking us as a country and as citizens, and the time has come to think about how it can be stopped." It is true that we have not yet seen characters with bare torsos and horns on their heads entering Congress, but every day we witness the speech of other madmen who, from certain media in this country, distill the same hatred.
Yesterday, the day began under the effects of the continuity of Pedro Sánchez, after the five-day break closed in Moncloa to reflect on his future. And it is clear that criticism is healthy in a democracy and that it can be interpreted that Pedro Sánchez, more than an act of love for his family, has made a last tactical move. But for the director of the digital El Debat to claim that Sánchez has bought the tickets to end his political career in the most tragic way possible is not only a threat, but seems like a rejection of Alex Garland's film.
Sánchez proclaimed that he was staying to regenerate politics, but he did not tell us how he will achieve this. This country tolerates discrepancy more and more. Ideological distances are widening dangerously and we see those who think differently as evil. It will not be easy to get out of the spiral of hatred. Any day someone will ask us in the street, with bad intentions, what kind of Spaniards we are.
