Victimhood competitions

While our information diet is based on a generous daily portion of the orders it has signed, the declarations it has issued or the high-tech companies that plan to buy the two-cap gos format by Trump and Musk, and the responses it has obtained from somewhere else on the planet, Spanish politics continues to move at its own pace: deficient, xacrós, but in a certain pioneering way pel fa l'esperit del temps. Now that the illiberal right imposes a discourse and a way of understanding politics, life and social relations in the West, Spanish politics has been following this path for some time.

The demonstration of the success of a speech is that it manages to condition, and better yet, distort, that of the adversary. Thus, often the most acrimonious declarations of self-proclaimed progressive populism are born not only from the doctrine of political correctness that began precisely in the United States in the eighties, but also as a response to the false and high-sounding speeches (but which manage to pass for reliable and true) that come from the right. From this and from ignorance, from the compulsive need to issue doctrine on matters that are unknown. From exercising continuous opinion, As Ferran Sáez Mateu says in his article remembering Baudrillard. This author also predicted, in the last part of the 20th century, another fact that defines the 21st: the censorship It is no longer based on a lack of information, but on an excess. The winner is the one who manages to get the most attention and the most space, rightly or wrongly.

The result is an often abusive competition of victimhood and over-interpretation (not only in the cinema). Right now, the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has managed to corner a state attorney general when it is her entourage, and herself, who are dragged along by a well-presumed history of corruption: Ayuso's boyfriend has already admitted part of the accusations against them. The case of the Isabel Zendal hospital, nor –much more seriously still– about the 7,291 people who died unassisted in Madrid's nursing homes during the pandemic. Among other reasons, she has not given it because the complaints against the Madrid president have been archived. However, she does not let any public appearance pass without whining about being the victim of state persecution. Pedro Sánchez also tried to play the victim with his days of meditation and his letters to the citizens, and his ministers often present themselves as victims of the PP's disloyalty, but with much less success.

Someone like Feijóo manages to establish himself as a vigilante against corruption (!). However, a good part of the PP's victimhood ends up not being to its benefit, but to that of Vox, a party with a leader capable of declaring that he is not worried about Trump's tariffs, but about those of Europe: eliminating tariffs between member states was one of the founding priorities of the European Union.