In the case of the two Mossos agents infiltrated in a teachers' assembly, speaking of a greater evil is not a play on words with Trapero's rank, but an objective description of a serious abuse of power committed by the institutions. In a democracy, it is a greater evil for the police, and therefore the government, to act against the right to free assembly: quite the contrary, what the police and the government should do regarding freedom of assembly is to guarantee it. Not to monitor it. Only the meetings of criminals should be monitored and prosecuted, and we do not see police infiltrating the meetings of certain politicians with speculators and directors of vulture funds, for example. On the other hand, there is another democratic requirement that must be demanded of rulers, and that is that public education should not be questioned. Teachers are not and can never be the enemy of rulers, and if they become so, or are seen as such, then the fault lies with the rulers, never with the teachers. The work of teachers and professors is one of the cornerstones of any democratic society, and the teaching collective should be very specially listened to in their demands, respected in their decisions, and remunerated for the decisive work they carry out. Public education cannot be a space of conflict and insecurity, and even less so a space infiltrated by plainclothes police. Neither in teachers' assemblies nor, of course, in classrooms.The lesser evil is what the parties supporting the Government, and also, from the opposition, Junts, seem to have chosen. ERC, Comuns, and CUP agree on demanding the dismissal or resignation of the aforementioned Trapero, and they do not go beyond requests for responsibility (they could do so, because the scandal is, let's repeat, serious). Junts does request that councilors Paneque and Parlón fall, but these are routine requests, which they do not expect to be heeded. The Government, on the other hand, has closed ranks around Trapero and thinks, at first, of getting out of this difficult situation without anyone from the organization falling. Illa is a politician of the old school with an axiom: heads are not cut off except when there is no other remedy. From this perspective, the risk that the situation will fester is less compared to the danger of the Government showing hesitation or weakness. Therefore, once again, the choice is for an evil that is considered lesser (it remains to be seen if it is: putrefaction generates infections).In the limbo of evils, in the middle but no less toxic zone, there is the ultra-conspiratorial swarm, which these days has had more than enough material to fill the networks with all sorts of delusions, threats, and hallucinated prophecies: hantavirus, the murder of a woman (an immigrant, by the way) in Esplugues and, now, the scandal of teacher assemblies infiltrated by police. If these people come to power, even with a small part of their arsenal of lies and alternative realities, it is possible that the upheavals they preach will become self-fulfilling prophecies.
