It is very significant that the ministerial portfolio in charge of the project to desecrate the Valley of the Fallen, disclosed this week, is precisely that of Housing.
A Government that has proven its stubborn incompetence to alleviate in the slightest the country’s most pressing problem—namely, the housing crisis—dedicates, however, the bulk of its efforts to propagating hysterical anti-Franco agitprop.
Bread and circuses, only without bread.
The Government’s housing policy Sánchez reproduces the general tone of its management in the rest of the matters that concern it, which is reduced to try to make up for their political impotence with pure political communication.
This gardener Executive neither builds nor lets build. But if nothing is done, we will have to act as if we were doing it: it is enough for the Minister of Housing to photograph herself wearing a worker’s helmet and wearing a reflective vest in front of a hole with scaffolding.
Democracy is also memory
We give Cuelgamuros a new meaning to convert what was a space of horror during the dictatorship and Francoism into a meeting and reflection point
Thanks to the jury and congratulations to the winners of this project, which makes us better as a country pic.twitter.com/AcdGvObX3X
— Isabel Rodríguez García (@isabelrguez) November 11, 2025
Senile social democracies, trapped in ruinous welfare states that drain the economic nerve of society, are not in a position to offer a horizon of development to their citizens.
And since they cannot guarantee a prosperous future, they can only demonize the past, distorting it with propaganda.
The patrimonial abuse that the Government intends to perpetrate in the Valley offers an optimal illustration of this same logic: He who is not capable of building anything can only destroy.
This is a desperate attempt to neutralize the imagination of any other alternative to the state in whichwhich is this asthenic and decadent Spain but seasoned with the deliquescent jargon of sustainability, inclusivity and resilience.
Building houses is fascism. And you don’t want to go back to fascism, do you? Paraphrasing the Jerónimo Molinathe only way to legitimize today’s oppressive regimes is the comparative grievance with the repressive regimes of yesteryear.
This explains why the Government has now embarked on trying to reverse the right-handed movement of the girls, bombarding the young electorate through TikToks that oscillate between the catechumenal and the nursery school.
Some denialist YouTuber will have told you that the Franco regime built dams and homes, but don’t be fooled. Well, it may have been true, but don’t forget that it was a criminal regime in which you couldn’t dance, love or call feminist batucadas.
In a display of expertise, the minister Oscar Lopez has estimated that the best way to criminalize the opposition is to blame it for the fact that its proposal for the rental problem is the same as that of the Francoist Housing Institute. A Housing Institute that built almost three and a half million houses in 36 yearswhen the current Government has completed 14,371 social housing in 8.
With its comparatist mania, the Government itself is helping to show that, in terms of social promotion, its Administration cannot withstand comparison with the precedents that it tries to vilify.
And with this you should draw a general lesson for your pomp from the Franco yearlest, highlighting the reversal of the Spain of property owners to the Spain of proletarians, it becomes a nostalgic store.
In Moncloa they have no news about the theory of the heterogenesis of ends. And that is why they have not properly gauged the possibility that, with their suicidal revisionist campaign, they may be inviting more and more people to counterproductive reflection: If the dilemma is either the PSOE – which is chaos – or Franco, then Franco.
In a context in which young people are deprived of access to an apartment, excluded from professional development options and hopeless in the face of a system that forces them to live worse than their parents, does the Government really want the new generations to play memory?
Do you think it will be good for you to incite a radical interrogation of this sclerotic fiscocracy, which does not even guarantee personal freedoms that are increasingly violated by hyperregulation, but rather – in expression of Juan Manuel de Prada— mere “fly rights”?
Is it really in Moncloa’s interest for Spaniards to consider whether they are freer today, in real and material terms and not in terms of purely formal and rhetorical freedoms, than fifty years ago?