1976-2026, from the National Day of hope to that of fear

An analysis like this fundamentally has one purpose, which is to help us all understand what kind of country we live in, or what kind of world we live in, and there is news today that helps a lot with that.For example: early this morning Donald Trump promised that if the Republican Party maintains the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate in the November 3rd elections, he will pay “every adult American a dividend” of 5,000 dollars. Donald Trump: “If the Republicans win the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, both of them, thanks to our enormous strength and our economic success, I will pay a dividend of 5,000 dollars to every adult citizen of the United States of America”.He is so worried about the results that he already wants to buy the vote. And he wraps it up in the usual triumphalist rhetoric, assuring that we are doing so well, and speaking like a businessman who manages a company and not a country, and promising a dividend. It is so low that it is not worth dwelling on. And it is a good thing he is promising money and not threatening deportations if they do not vote for him, but it will all come. It is not that they have no shame, it is that they have a plan: to perpetuate themselves in power, make money and prevent being prosecuted, if necessary, by ending democracyAnother one: Sánchez has kept his promise to make public all the reports he received regarding the massive entry into Ceuta, with the intention of demonstrating that nobody saw it coming. Well, the warnings portray the Spanish government, since the CNI warned of calls for an assault on the fence and by sea, but without anticipating the magnitude. If the papers portray Sánchez, why publish them? Because they cling to a part of the truth: they did not receive any report. They received WhatsApps and calls. But there were indeed warnings. No matter how you look at it, the Spanish government's foresight was zero, and the management was slow, and therefore bad. And what does Sánchez offer? Catchy phrases for the enjoyment of TikTok, Instagram or X. Like this one:Pedro Sánchez: “Regarding the insults, my lord, you have called me an autocrat, a dictator, they even call me a dog. They call me a dog, yes, yes, they call me a dog. Look, I will tell you one thing, Mr. Abascal: unlike you, I may be a dog, but I have no master”.It has no owner, but dialectical creativity is not enough when there is a crisis like the one Morocco has created for Ceuta. All of this is a theater that does not hold up.Salvador Illa should take note of this. Yesterday Josep Lluís Trapero resigned, his great signing for the general direction of the Police, for the reasons we explained: Trapero is very much Trapero and he did not get along with Minister Parlon. And yesterday it became clear that the straw that broke the camel's back was the appointment of Sílvia Catà as the new head of the Mossos, to the point that Trapero resigned on the day the new head of the force was to be presented, historic news because she is the first woman who will lead the police. Anyway, these things happen in politics, but it has been another dent (and quite a visible one) in the bodywork of the Illa government. He has had to replace five officials in one month. It has just been two years since he arrived at the presidency, he is halfway through his term, he has a budget for next year, but he has problems in Education, Health, the Interior, with mobility, and the discourse that a Government was coming that would actually know how to manage (unlike the “chaos” with the pro-independence Governments) no longer holds up. This Government shows signs today of difficulty in solving problems, and the president should think that they do not go away with more or less fortunate phrases. And so we arrive at a new Diada, at a new National Day. Tomorrow will mark 50 years since the first one after the Francoist dictatorship. The one in 1976 was a tolerated Diada, because the civil governor of the time prohibited the celebration in Barcelona. It was a brave Diada, in which it was possible to use the term “National Day” without fear, and, above all, it brought everyone together. That unity is the message today. Today there is less courage, more calculation, more wounds from the Procés and an extreme right with an exclusionary vision of Catalan identity. What has happened to the Diada is what has happened to the world: too much fear and too little hope.Good morning.