I don’t want to spoil your pre-post-pandemic euphoria but There are symptoms that we are headed for a worse world Or put more directly: to a shitty world. The first Airbnb tourists arrive (and in Venice, the super-cruises) with pre-pandemic pretenses. They look like the hosts of Attila eager for plunder. The terraces of the bars and restaurants invade sidewalks, boulevards and squares without leaving space for pedestrians. Strolling has become a gymkhana between people who drink, smoke and scream miasmas. Who said we were going to learn our lesson?
Cars are back at ease, at least in Madrid, which is where I live. Idiots sound their horns to mark their intellectual level. Private businesses and donor funds take precedence over the health of citizens. It is the triumph of the car manufacturers, the oil companies and the leisure of the scattering. We will talk about climate change another day.
While Europe is committed to sustainable cities, full of pedestrian areas, green spaces and bike lanes separated and protected from other traffic, Madrid returns to the 1960s of Franco’s developmentalism. Yes to a large part of the Spanish right The breath of democracy has not yet reached him, do not ask them for modernity in matters of urban planning and well-being.
Years of unleashed optimism have followed the pandemics. In 1918 the euphoria was added by the end of the First World War, in which about 23 million people died. It was the first contest in which more civilians than military died. The crazy 1920s, which have more literature than reality, gave way to the 1930s with the eruption of Nazism.
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There are dangerous symptoms, like the effervescence of the extreme right, of xenophobia and hatred. Nothing is safe, neither the rights conquered nor democracy itself. The rights of the 21st century have embraced the crusades against feminism, minority voting and human rights. The regression is evident in the US, where the trumpismo and its mutations are more alive than ever. Donald Trump is the consequence of deterioration in a world in which the truth as the basis of information and politics has disappeared.
In eight years we will enter in our 1930s.
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Today’s society is increasingly less informed despite more information available than ever. The excess of data, opinions and news that flow through social networks, the websites of traditional media and televisions make it difficult to understand a changing reality. The value of the context has disappeared, which is the framework that supports the proven facts, that which we call “truth”. It all looks like an infotainment scream in which fictional characters prevail over journalists, morning songs over scientists.
Lack of quality information and calm to understand an unstable world that threatens structural changes deeper than those caused by the Industrial Revolution. It’s not just digitization, it’s robotics that will dominate production and entertainment. There is a real fear of the massive loss of employment, and of the disappearance of the way of life in which we were educated. The least prepared sectors, those that work in traditional industries, feel threatened by change. They are the favorite object of hate speech that singles out migrants as guilty. It happens in the US, it happens in Spain.
Lara Trump, wife of Eric, one of the former president’s sons, he just asked his followers to arm themselves, that they buy guns, because those who live near the southern border will have to take action against the waves of migrants. Are you asking to be killed? Vox concentrates that xenophobic discourse in Spain in the MENAS (unaccompanied minors) and the denial of sexist violence.
The US legislative elections of November 2022 will be crucial, as they will be the Germans in September. In the US, the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate will be renewed. Joe Biden has a slim majority in the lower house today. The Senate is divided into two blocks, 50-50, which is broken by Kamala Harris, who is also the president of the Senate.
A Democratic defeat next year would be a catastrophe, an impulse for far-right forces in the US and Europe. On the Old Continent, the crucial battle will be fought in France, where an anti-European victory for Marine Le Pen is possible. It seems impossible, but this time it is less impossible than ever. No right is secure.
In Spain, Vox feeds on the structural stupidity of Pablo Casado, who does not know what role to play, moderate at night, radical by day. Isabel Díaz Ayuso has eaten it with potatoes because she does not play roles, she is herself with her self-confidence. You can say the same at the bar of a bar as in the microphones of the seat of government. Improvise without knowing the Constitution of which he presumes so much, led her to screw up the king’s role in pardons. Despite being an institutional illiterate, As Iñaki Gabilondo pointed out, do not rule out that Díaz Ayuso someday arrive at La Moncloa. In Colón Abascal was also eaten. People like it because it is uninhibited, a little crazy. It is something that causes laughter until the funny man presses the nuclear button.
The left is out of order in many countries, less in Chile and Colombia. What happens in Nicaragua with tyrants flags Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is still a tragic grotesque. We will see what happens with the Greens in Germany; If they win, seconds are left and they will be part of the government or they will deflate.
We can just inaugurate the postpablism, a period of orphanhood full of risks because the leader occupied all the space. You need to move from slogans to action, understand the priorities of most people. It was spent in the gender war in the draft of the Ley Trans with Carmen Calvo. A necessary law, but in politics it is essential to choose the battles and to know how to move with discretion. An example is Yolanda Díaz at Work.
Irene Montero was so worn out that she ran out of steam for another battle with an impact on the whole of society. What good is it that they are in the Government if they are unable to lower the price of electricity? How have they consented to the goal of the bill of the three sections in which the consumer always loses? It is also valid for the PSOE: if he is not able to differentiate himself from the PP in these thingsWhat is the point of voting for them? It would only be necessary for Vox to also be made with this flag.
Speaking of pessimism: I wish you a Merry Christmas. I say it in case we do not arrive.
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