Polarization is talked about as if it were an atmospheric phenomenon. Something that, like the love in the song, was in the air.
The Government was the first to detect this dominant current. Hence, it developed a communication strategy, emphasized by its president in the few and highly selected interviews he grants, based on pointing out the opposite party as solely responsible.
The party’s propaganda apparatus, which almost thirty years ago portrayed its adversary as a canine barking furiously at the camera, began to talk about the growing “dehumanization” of which its leaders were subjected. Especially the main one.
The theory has been somewhat discredited this week. The appearance of Carlos Mazón in the investigative commission on Dana in Congress has left a deep feeling of unease in anyone who continues to believe in the uses and customs of parliamentarism.
They treated him like a dog. Or, rather, They treated him like dogs were treated before..
It was a contest of merit in which Gabriel Rufian I had everything to win. His way of questioning the defendant descended into a subsoil that only the most fearsome schoolyard bullies reach.
ERC spokesperson, Gabriel Rufián.
Those “shut up!”
That way of revealing the contained rage of someone who would prefer to solve the trance with something more than words.
There is a phrase that will remain in the History of the Session Diary (although, as is usually the brand’s trademark, it was intended for viralization on social networks).
“I tell you to your face that you are useless, a liar, incapable, miserable, a murderer and a psychopath. And I hope you pay with prison for everything you have done and I hope the people of Valencia stop voting for you.”
“Psychopath”.
The vileness of the outburst does not make it less interesting as a portrait of a political time. It explains very well how this polarization works. The politicians themselves fuel it out of a pure matter of necessity.
The example of Carlos Mazón is especially significant because there is a social perception of him that is quite close to consensus. He has proven to be more than suitable for the position he held. For both political and moral reasons.
If on the day of October 29, 2024 he proved to be incapable, in the entire year that has passed he has revealed himself to be an unworthy liar.
Not content with not assuming responsibility when it came, he has made things worse all this time with a succession of overlapping versions that have plunged him into discredit from which he no longer returns.
It is difficult to find relevant discrepancies about this portrait in the sociological center-right. The editorials of the press related to the PP calling for his resignation are in the newspaper archives.
It has become clear that this consensus vision was not valid. Precisely because it is consensus. That is why the spokespersons for the investiture bloc had to go one step further. Mazón is no longer everything we just described. He is an individual who sought out deaths because he derives pleasure from them.
Anything to go to the crash. Take advantage of parliamentary immunity to force confrontation.
Stretch the rope so much that there is no choice but to go out to “defend” Mazón for a matter of minimal humanity.
In case the mention of Jar Jar Binks on the platform of Congress last week would not have been enough to confirm the extent to which the public debate has been infantilized by the left’s obsession with taking everything to the realm of moral superiority.
Some people cry out proclaiming that Rufián cannot be compared to Mazón. But when one sets oneself up as an ethical reference, it is worth remembering the role played on that other fateful morning in the Cortes, in which what was learned about the Valencian tragedy was enough to stop the control session, but not the taking of the RTVE council, with a chair for ERC.
There were more spokespersons doing their bit. Ione Herb never disappoints. More surprising was the representative of the PSOE, Alejandro Solermaking direct mentions of the “expectations” that the president had placed on the food that ended his career and the existence of a mute.
The acting president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón.
This brings us to interesting questions.
Once it was confirmed that Mazón was not doing what he should be… to what extent is what he was doing relevant?
Would it have been less serious if your disconnection had been due to a game of ludo with friends or watching your favorite sit-down series?
Is the PSOE willing to continue playing this game when these same rules on private conduct turn against it?
Or will he unleash the chorus of fuss?
Remember every time government supporters talk about unidirectional polarization.