When I count to three you will be a far-right party.

Cover of 'El Mundo.'
25/05/2025
1 min

The two-real circus act is well-known. The hypnotist counts to three, and the intended victim returns to the previous state, unaware that when the other person pecks their fingers, they'll either think they're a chicken or see everyone naked. There's no need to resort to these oil hypnosis tricks, because there's a much more powerful weapon than the pendulum: the Sunday poll. The World offered us an excellent example with the headline: "90% of PP voters urge the PP to "update" its political ideology." We have already mentioned on other occasions that this urgent is tricky, as are similar verbs that express an active claim: piden (they ask), exigen (they demand), claman (they cry out)… No. The respondent was called while he had the spaghetti in the pot, they asked him if he thought such and such or pascual (in the terms of the person paying for the survey)—and they turned his answer into nothing less than an urgency.

And here, too, the narcoleptic effect of the euphemism is added. What does "updating" the ideology mean? If it's not explicit, it sounds like the typical thing you say yes to out of inertia. Who would want to be outdated? But when The World He asks this in general terms; in reality, he is very clear about the direction in which he would like to move the PP, which is none other than that of a party that is not averse to forming a pact with the far-right Vox to form a stable governing majority for a few legislative terms. And they are hostile towards the most vulnerable.

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