The Cerdán case has fallen like a cluster bomb that, far beyond a president or a government, is sending shrapnel against the morality of society and the quality of democracy itself. That's why, these days, there are all kinds of rending of garments. For example: "The left doesn't steal," said Rufián. Wrong. Corruption is a possibility as old as the human condition: for centuries and centuries, people of all stripes have stolen everywhere.
Precisely this moral superiority often displayed by the left is the same one that makes Sánchez's arguments ("The PP is an encyclopedia of corruption!") sound weak and infuriating, because it reduces the line of defense to the fact that, if he were to fall, both the right and the right would come at him in droves. This only serves to whet the appetite. In fact, if there's been one argument that has been weakening social democracy's ability to transform and inspire, it's the repeated claim that others are worse and that if you don't go, they'll come back. They've been saying this for twenty years and they keep losing votes.
"They're all the same." It's not true. Politics is full of honest people, and at least, in a democracy, we have the ability to kick out the dishonest ones.
"And the corruption case is breaking out now, in the middle of tax returns." Yes, this is a painful contrast, even a scandalous one. But demagoguery has a limit. If we want hospitals and schools to be open this morning, we must pay taxes, and now we won't be caught out by corrupt people and the little control they had over them, forgetting that we all support public services.
"Punish the corruptors." Yes, indeed. We must go beyond apologies and apologies. If anyone still plays dirty to secure a contract for public works or services, they and the company they work for should be punished.
