Together, they should leave the PSOE behind because of WhatsApp

Breaking up via WhatsApp has a terrible reputation, but there are cases where it seems like the best option, especially when communication problems are so obvious that there's a risk the dumped and dumped parties won't be clear on the terms of their separation. A short text, with the inevitable emojis—now a sad face emoji, now a bandaged heart emoji—can serve as a reference and help those who are reluctant to accept their new status as the dumped ones. I say this because if someone from the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) went to the newsstand today, heartbroken, to find out for sure if Junts (Together for Change) has already packed up their toothbrush, they'll have a hard time finding out.

First, they'll take it naturally The Country And his spirits will sink to his knees when he sees that the chosen headline on the front page is "Together responds to Sánchez: 'We've broken, and we've really broken.'" Great desolation and dismay. But, with trembling hands, he will then grasp The World And a glimmer of hope will swell his heart: "Together demands Sánchez 'kneel' and 'amnesty' for reconciliation." All is not lost! (And how they love the rhetoric of humiliation in the Madrid newspapers.) That thread of belief in healing would then become a pure explosion of joy when he went to The Vanguard And I read, "Together is open to resuming relations with the PSOE if the agreements are honored." Come on, we've really broken up... or maybe not so much. There's a somewhat abusive pattern here, both going in and out, between the unfulfilled promises of some and the emotional (in this case, electoral) blackmail of others. This reciprocity of disappointment creates the strange equilibrium that is the current legislature. And that's why, when it comes to crafting the narrative, it's worth remembering the great philosopher Mariano Rajoy when he uttered his profound aphorism, "Everything is false, except for a few things."