There are lies that hurt. Others that kill. But some have the strange virtue of undressing whoever utters them. The last of Pedro Sánchez belongs, due to his impudence, to this family.
But that was simply a lie.
From Moncloa, Sánchez had congratulated at least the winners of 2018 and 2019. Specifically, the Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukgeweto the activist Nadia Murad and to Prime Minister of Ethiopia Ahmed Ali. None of them had the links with Spain of the brave Venezuelan opponent.
Beyond Sánchez’s hidden connivance with the usurper Maduro to avoid angering his radical partners, what the episode denotes is not so much contempt for what María Corina means. as indifference towards the truth. And therefore towards all of us.
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If many lies have short legs, this one from Sánchez lacked any mileage. It was obvious that in a matter of minutes Anyone would check the data and the fallacy would be evident..
But Sánchez didn’t care. There are rulers for whom lying is a refined art. For our president it seems to have become a physiological activity. He lies like he sweats.
Sánchez has already lied so many times without being punished for it, that he doesn’t even care Whether or not what he says is true. He, who relies so much on the “fake news” of the “pseudo media” and who has hundreds of stonemasons at his service, seems to have dispensed with the most basic technique of verifying the certainty of his arguments.
It is a sign of arrogance with few precedents. In the interview itself on Tuesday He denied having ever heard ‘sexist’ conversations to Ábalos and Koldo while they were touring Spain in the Peugeot: “Not at all, I can guarantee it.”
Who would close a deal at this point with the word of Sánchez as a “guarantee”? Anyone would think that he has come to the conviction that it doesn’t matter whether citizens with critical capacity believe him or not.
Perhaps because he thinks that adhering to an acronym, belonging to an organization, adhering to an ideology and, above all, fear—or better yet hatred—of one’s adversaries They are electoral motivations much more powerful than the truth.
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Sánchez has not even rectified the Nobel Prize thing. Not because of the discomfort of having to find another alibi—in Moncloa, comments that are both negative and unfair about María Corina are circulating—but because of the disdain for the very concept of accountability.
If Sánchez can govern without presenting budgets for three consecutive years —which implies, as the AIREFthat no one controls public spending—, you can also do it without subjecting yourself to the newspaper library’s lie detector.
It is very typical of deified leaders when they lose their sense of reality. The more powerful they feel, the greater the treadmills with which they make their subjects commune.
Felipe González and Rajoy abused their absolute majorities to cover up the GAL and the PP’s fund B with ridiculous lies. But Sánchez’s ambition and ego do not even require the springboard of parliamentary arithmetic.
Hence, for him there has never been a better employee of the year than Jose Felix Tezanos.
What’s more, you could almost say that Sánchez would like to be Tezanos when he grows up. Not only because of the self-confidence with which he lies, but because of the sadism with which he does it. Don’t you want a cup? Well, enema and a half.
In private, Sánchez pretends to mock Tezanos—if he took his polls seriously he would have already called early elections—but in reality he deeply admires him because he is the only one who beats him in cheek. The only one who cares less about lying than him.
When it comes to serving the cause, everything slips away for Tezanos. And nothing like your permanence in office certifies the tragaderas of Spanish society, starting with those of the opposition. What less than leaving each plenary session for five minutes while this individual remains in office!
The latest CIS barometer has broken all divergence records with respect to the rest of the surveys. And confrontation with common sense.
You have to be very fanatic or very scoundrel—perhaps they are two sides of the same coin—to attribute to Sánchez, overnight, fifteen points ahead of Feijóo with the tidal wave of corruption that surrounds him.
But most notable of all, as in the case of the lie about congratulating previous Nobel Peace Prize winnersis the carelessness with which Tezanos has left the trace of his trap evident. Because it is the CIS itself that includes in its reference tables an adulterated vote memory by no less than 22 points in favor of the PSOE.
Where does this man get the individuals who make up this supposedly representative sample of Spanish society? It must be from the PSOE groups and its surroundings.
This is the only way to explain that 38.6% say they voted for the PSOEwhen in reality only 31.6% did so; and that only 18.9% say they voted for the PP, when the truth is that 33.05% did.
And from there, Castilla is wide. As Kiko Llaneras emphasizes, Tezanos has overestimated the left in 41 of 42 elections. One more won’t change your resume.
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Doing the old lady’s calculations, it would turn out that by discounting Sánchez’s fifteen-point bias, the result would be more or less the seven that SocioMétrica established last Sunday in EL ESPAÑOL in favor of Feijóo.
But a part of the citizens, little or not at all interested in the details of politics, just listen to the result on public television without any critical prevention. That’s what Tezanos and Sánchez rely on: the apathy and conformity with the official discourse of a large part of the audience.
That, based on so much repetition, there are those who live convinced that Feijóo plays into Abascal’s hands and that together they justify the “genocide” of the Palestinians and the obstacles to abortion that force Spanish women—especially those from Madrid—to once again have to travel to London to terminate their pregnancies.
Based on these mendacious premises, it is logical that Sánchez is fifteen points ahead. The incomprehensible thing is that has not yet reached an absolute majority. Everything will work out.
Why does the CIS lie so much and so easily? Why does public television lie so much and so comfortably? Why do the minister spokesperson and a large part of the members of the Government lie so much and so carelessly?
¿Why does the President of the Government lie so much and with such impunity??
A legion of advisors controls the scenery and script of the debates. Lying is not just a survival method. It is also a technique of advancement and occupation.
Better yet: lies are an industrial product methodically manufactured in the Moncloa factory.
Lying serves to avoid criticism, to anesthetize public opinionto distort the framework of a debate as the esviaje openly altered the proportion of an arch so that certain carriages could pass.
The lies create false victims and unusual executioners. When lying permeates the machinery of administration, infects statistics and is reproduced through multiple rigged channels, the saturation point is such that lying stops penalizing the stubborn.
Nobody asks for an account. The society gets used to it like any narcotic. The official story crushes the facts.
That is why we will never know if the unemployment figures, the evolution of the GDP, the inflation rate or the data on rent increases are as reliable as the count of the president’s congratulations or the CIS vote estimate.
No matter how much endorsement they obtain in high international bodies. Sánchez’s would not be the first government to have literally lied to everyone.
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What future awaits us when whoever drives the political helm it gets so wrapped up in the post-truth and when the state machinery multiplies and amplifies each distortion?
It is not just the political opposition, it is not just the media who are at risk. It is the entire citizenry that bears the burden. danger of losing the very democratic substrate on which coexistence is based today.
In the developed world of the 21st century, no democracy will succumb to a sudden coup d’état. But be careful with the gradual extinction of citizens’ trust in institutions.
Nothing will happen from one day to the next. There will simply come a time when reality loses all relation to constitutional values.
When the word of the head of the executive branch no longer means anything and everything is expansive political apparatus amplifies its fallacies without the slightest shamewithout the slightest counterweight, without the slightest hint of self-criticism, the lie becomes a weapon loaded with the future.
Of an uncertain, dark future, filled with dirty threats, painful mutilations and cowardly renunciations.
Nothing will happen from one day to the next. There will simply come a time when reality loses all relation to constitutional values.
There is a reason I insist that the next general elections, whatever their date, They will be the most important of this half century of democracy.
If the current situation in which those who rule lie and those who lie rule are prolonged and chronic, the spirit of the transition will be squandered and the new generations will expect a future more similar to the past than at present.
It will be a brave new world in which chistorras will once again be just chistorras and lettuce, nothing more than lettuce. “I can guarantee it.”