Machado coined the concept of the two Spains that became more than evident during the civil war. We turn to him and We use it to understand various confrontations or tensions: rich against poor, fascists against reds, Catholics against atheists, monarchists against republicans. Machado spoke rather of two mentalities that would be the substratum of everything else. These days, on the subject of de-escalation, we have returned to myth to explain the tensions between the autonomous communities to see who comes out before confinement. But, if we look closely, there are not two Spain but rather a community of Madrid split in half. On the one hand, Madrid in the Salamanca district who claims freedom to save the business, even at the cost of health. And on the other hand Aluche’s Madrid which, as Carol Álvarez explained, exposes the putrefaction of the black economy, which in this emergency is neither entitled nor to the subsidy. The gap between the 20% of the population with the highest income and the 20% with the least is in Madrid the largest in all of Spain. That must be, without a doubt, the model of success in Madrid that, according to President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the de-escalation is endangering.
There is a tendency, to a certain extent understandable, to identify Madrid with Spain. It happens to the men and women of the time of almost all television networks. And also to identify Madrid with certain business and business elites. It happens to the most combative Catalan independentists. And this is how The myth of the two Spains is now confused with the polarized Madrid of the demonstrations and the soup kitchens. The drama is that some, the two Pablos (Casado and Iglesias) want to make this axis the main axis of Spanish politics. In Madrid, what really hurts is that for once in life the State has not bowed to the demands of the city where it lives. This time it did not happen as with Caja Madrid when the local savings entities paid for the broken capital. Get ready in Madrid, but don’t drag everyone with you.
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