If historical memory brought Vox

Certifying the advance of the extreme right does not need a statistical endorsement, it is as palpable as the generalization of the pandemic. Settled in Vox, it is assigned without blinking a ceiling between seventy and eighty deputies. This rent does not translate at the moment into the occupation of La Moncloa, but Podemos imposes a fixed Vice President of the Government with less than half of the seats. A decade ago, the ebullience of ultramontane populism would be disdained, because it served as a symmetrical refuge for the defiant “I will vote for the Greens”, which later did not materialize. From the European elections of 2014 or from 15M, depending on the preferred landmark, the vote for apparently exotic options is reflected in the polls.

The phenomenon is nailed down in its evidence, and it only remains to determine the causes of the flourishing of the extreme right, where the matter is “notably” complicated, as Mariano Rajoy would say. It is convenient to move beyond the panphilous reaction of the left, which covers its eyes under the lament that “this cannot be happening.” Contrary to the claims of the experts, the interpretation of the extremist solidification It is loaded with subjectivity. Economic, political, pandemic arguments or the sum of all of the above are explored. You can find out why a specific neighbor or brother-in-law has emigrated from the comfortable PP to ultraism, but it is absurd to pigeonhole fifty deputies. Except for those who assimilate statements such as «77.3 percent of white men with plaid shirts and shorts vote for…».

It can be considered, for example if historical memory brought Vox, in an eternalization of anti-Francoism against Francoism and of the two Spains. The connection between both data is far from being a scientific truth, it only serves as a starting point to start a discussion. An action can be annulled, or canceled in the official fashionable verb, by its reaction, but the formal beauty of that reciprocity does not guarantee that it is true. The extreme right could have landed equally without the reinterpretation of the pact of silence of the transition. And the opening of the graves could have been substantiated without reply.

If philosophy is a story, according to a vision of increasing weight, history derives in science fiction. From the point of view of verification, nobody would buy a second-hand vehicle from political scientists, who offer more dubious arguments than epidemiologists. It is not about embracing the anarchist perspective, which Feyerabend postulated in the hard sciences. The political environment illuminates empirical truths. For example, in the unbeatable “There are no Citizens without We Can”.

The relief of considering himself assisted by reason is crushed by the political urgency of finding out who wins. The action of the renewed condemnation of Francoism, and the possible founding reaction of Vox, once again demonstrate that uncomfortable truths require a favorable breeding ground to be chewed and digested in society. Garzón’s experience, both Alberto’s and Baltasar’s, shows that not all battles should be fought, only those that are necessary and productive.

Innovative combat must also be approached in the right tone, a subject that had its world champion in Rodríguez Zapatero. For example, a consumer minister could focus his obsession on a campaign on food waste, which in the West rises above thirty percent. Political action is measured by its results. In this section, pointing to the cow as the greatest enemy of human beings has been as harmful as requesting from a court of the National High Court if Franco has died. Resurrecting him in passing, a decade before a helicopter virtually sprinkled his ashes all over Madrid. Of course, criticism of a minister will always be more appreciable if they come from someone who does not aspire to his ministry.

“The truth is so sacred that it should be escorted with lies,” Churchill maintained to dissuade those who claim the virginity of public life, within a world order based on the explosion of two atomic bombs. Vox means the destruction of basic consensus, the unanimity lost even in the face of bloody crimes such as gender violence. Every proposal will have a grumpy response, even if it is a tribute to a recently deceased writer.

To close the balance it would be necessary to demonstrate, and it is impossible to achieve it, if the radicalization of the right is being more organized and effective than the greening of the drastic left. The great humor at this point is the withdrawal from the streets dedicated in Madrid to Indalecio Prieto and Largo Caballero, of course at the request of Vox but above all in application of the PSOE’s Law of Historical Memory.