What does it mean to be Catalan (2): those who are left over

We have a country with eight and a half million inhabitants and public services that barely covered the needs of six million Catalans forty years ago. With a birth rate among the native population that is not even enough to maintain the population, the analysis is clear: without foreigners we would be better off. Therefore, let's kick them out. This way, healthcare, education, public transport, social aid, and, in short, the well-being of the true Catalans will be at the level we deserve (and that one day, which we no longer remember, we had). Without immigrants, moreover, we will go out for a walk in our streets calmly, without fear that a gang of Latinos, Arabs, or sub-Saharans will take our lives.A purified Catalonia would certainly be more prosperous. Sooner or later we will need new Catalans; Catalans from here, Catalans named Puig, Vergés, Ferré or Giró, so perhaps we will have to review the laws we have regarding homosexual people, because whether we like it or not, nothing comes out of the relationships between them that makes the country grow. God forbid I tell people what they should do in the privacy of their own homes, but a responsible policy must look after demographic issues. And a prosperous country cannot afford for people not to have children. Therefore, if we love the country, perhaps we will have to kick out the gays, the lesbians, and the transsexuals, who do not want to make it prosper by bringing new generations of Catalans into the world. While this does not happen, however, we could rethink the role of the elderly. It is not fair that the average pension of an older person in Catalonia is higher than the minimum wage of a worker. Something is not working if it is this worker who has to pay for the pension of the older person. Taking into account how life expectancy has lengthened, and the excessive consumption that the elderly make of public healthcare, it is a country requirement to cut their benefits and direct these resources to the productive youth. We are already late to dismantle a pension regime based on plunder, because it is unfair—and ineffective—in plain sight. We must promote that every Catalan saves what they can to take charge, when the moment arrives, of the needs they may have.In short, a more dynamic and fairer Catalonia cannot afford for one-fifth of the population to live off the rest. In Catalonia, we do not want old people!

What do you think about people with a disability, especially those who were born with this condition? Is it the Generalitat or the State that should take charge of it? In a time when science and healthcare allow for the detection of malformations just as gestation begins, could we not, out of a sense of justice, but also of responsibility, prevent all these births? It is time to call things by their name, without fear. We are mature enough to talk about eugenics calmly, objectively, setting aside empty rhetoric. It is in our interest to recover the wisdom of the demographer Josep Vandellós i Solà, and to reread, calmly, his two main works: Catalunya, poble decadent, and La immigració a Catalunya.In short: we need healthy, autonomous, and strong Catalans, who have children like themselves.I do not see, however, why we should stop here. We could also throw out the entire political class: a bunch of inept and lazy people, who only want to warm the chair and suck everything they can from the public treasury. And while we're at it, let's send to a distant country the hundreds of thousands of civil servants who, when they are not on sick leave, arrive an hour late and leave an hour early, if they are not "teleworking" from home... or from the bar! Let them see what it is like to work! A good way to start cleaning up, simple and economical: choose based on appearance. Dark skin, hair that is too curly, a fleshy and round body structure, could preventively activate the expulsion mechanisms we might set in motion. We could also look at what is written in the passport or ID card: all the Martínezes, Gonzálezes, Pérezes, Romeros, Jennifers, Ladydis, Darwins, Yusnavys, Malcolms and the like, go to the window for some checks. Finally, we could get rid of the poor, of those who are against these measures and of those who do not think like me. Because that is the problem with starting to divide a country between those who belong to it and those who are left over: that, once the principle is accepted, someone always appears who seems to belong to it less than we do.And perhaps the most unsettling thing of all is that, after writing this, I still feel the need to clarify to some reader that it is a caricature: that of the monster that, today, scares me more than any other.