Albiol 'the Cruel'

This year, television stations will not need to broadcast any version of the A Christmas Carol Dickens's novels illustrate the inhumanity of a miserly capitalist. In Badalona, we have a mayor, elected by the voters, who shamelessly displays, and one might even say with a certain satisfaction, his boundless cruelty. With the world dominated by psychopaths who wield power in both politics and large corporations, it seems the floodgates have opened, and mediocre local leaders have taken over. empoweredThey no longer need to hide it and are crossing lines they've never crossed before. That's why Dickens is such a good mirror: they want to take us back to a time when the sense of justice hadn't yet been embodied in such revolutionary inventions as human rights.

Evicting four hundred people and leaving them exposed to the elements on the brink of winter and during a rainstorm has consequences that go far beyond the cold, the suffering, the hunger, and the sense of helplessness these people experience. García Albiol's sadistic cruelty, disguised as reasonable reason, changes us, changes who we are as a society. Elon Musk already preaches this when he attributes the world's ills to excessive empathy, forgetting that human beings would have already become extinct if we didn't take care of each other and that Musk himself would have died if, as a baby, no one had felt compassion for his vulnerability. Calculating before offering aid, granting rights based on good behavior, as if we lived in a very old regime and Albiol were acting as an authoritarian sovereign, a paternalistic patriarch, more the owner of a 19th-century industrial colony than a democratic politician. Is this what those who voted for him wanted? A mayor who persecutes and criminalizes Black people, who takes the law into his own hands?

We already know Mr. (excuse the hyperbole) Albiol's populist methods, although he seems willing to go even further in this new offensive. I expect nothing from that reprehensible character who embodies the worst from both a human and political perspective. But what's wrong with his followers? What's wrong with those who took to the streets to protest the idea of providing shelter to a group of people solely because of their origin and skin color? How have they reached this level of barbarity, where they not only show no compassion for those being evicted but demand that they be left on the street? If they could, wouldn't they annihilate them, wouldn't they kill them all, wouldn't they exterminate them? Because to wish and demand that someone be left on the street is, in fact, to wish and demand that they be abandoned to their fate and suffer the cold and the rain. The hatred in the faces of this enraged mob is not hatred. naturalThis is the result of some particular grievance; it's not animosity stemming from a specific conflict: it's blind hatred toward those we believe are responsible for all evils. It is, in fact, a very primitive, very tribal behavior, this tendency to turn on the most vulnerable and throw them into the purifying fire. They believe they are protesting against Black people because they are illegal (this crime of presence), because García Albiol and demagogues like him have led them to believe so. They don't see, or don't want to see, that if they are being persecuted, it's because they are poor. And, of course, the protesters don't recognize themselves in the faces of these destitute people because they are...othersThey should be visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come to show them that the dehumanization of immigrants today will sooner or later lead to the dehumanization of the world. nativesAnd what about themselves and their children if they can't pay their mortgage or rent and are evicted? Then, I'm sure García Albiol will come to their rescue, defending their right to housing, and will stop the evictions of all the poor. from here. For sure yes.