The far right and reality

The far right has the advantage of having an argument based on real facts: a widespread impoverishment of the middle classes, on the verge of extinction and tax squeezes; the increasing number of working poor; the desolation of well-educated young people who earn more money as waiters in Scandinavia than in a job here for which they have spent five years studying; the frustration of young people at not being able to emancipate themselves from their parents' home because they can't dream of buying an apartment, but they can't even rent one, and we're not even talking about having children. In short: dreams are disappearing, be it the Catalan dream or the American one: making an effort is no longer enough. It seems as if everything that still holds on to from the welfare state no longer has any value. And all this in a world that spins madly without moral or legal restraints and in a Europe that looks at it paralyzed by fear, like the aristocrat who already sees the sliding doors ofhealthy-culottesthrough the gardens of the residence.

Whoever stirs this cocktail against the parties that have alternated in the country's government for decades has a lot to gain. And if that weren't enough, the far right has a culprit, which is immigration, and when it comes to blaming those who are different, the connection with the people through their base instincts is immediate.

The fire that keeps this indignation at a boil is social media, yes, but the lies and insults wouldn't have as much force if they didn't operate on a harsh reality. The worst part is that authoritarianism has no solution, only culprits, and we know from history that its rhetoric and government programs bring even greater disasters.