Pathetic lefts

Without ideas, without direction, and increasingly distanced from the citizenry, the left to the left of the socialists present a miserable spectacle of impotence and an absence of goals and discourse, such that the only thing that surfaces are worn-out egos that no longer attract anyone, trapped in the mire of the eternal and pathetic psychopathology of small differences. There is no project, only infighting, and not even the emergency of the sustained growth of the far right serves to make people react and place the need to curb the authoritarian drift above the miserable dynamic of move over so I can take your place.

For years—and especially since the socialists have been in power—these groups and small factions, with their little men, have been faltering. And they are not even capable of grasping the urgencies of the moment, placing at the forefront—with proposals and seeking complicity—the problems that trap the citizenry: the cost of living, housing, wage stagnation, indebtedness, the climate collapse, the impact of artificial intelligence, and distrust of those in charge. Faced with a lack of alternatives, a citizenry that feels abandoned by God ends up listening to whoever shouts the loudest. The rise of the far right has to do with the bewilderment and capitulation of the left. Burnt-out names, who refuse to understand that their time has passed, who in their impotence effectively contribute to the working classes letting themselves be dragged along by post-democratic authoritarianism, disoriented in the face of a left trapped in the uselessness of some aspirants, burnt out in old battles, who neither know nor respond.

When Vox, taking advantage of Feijóo’s sad leadership, has already climbed onto the back of the PP and the right is letting go of its reactionary impulses without any shame and the PSOE bets everything on the melancholy of Sánchez’s charisma, a frayed left is shrinking in the face of elections that could be transcendental in leading the country toward the democratic regression that is expanding day by day in Europe. What is the problem? Deep down, accustomed to living off the clichés of the far left—many words and few deeds—they now find themselves without knowing what to say in the face of the profound current mutations that have caused the right to soar. And they put themselves in pathetic evidence