The scariest phrases in English are: “I’m from the Government and I’m right here to assist”. I remorse that in these unlucky hours of horror, indignation and impotence, with toothy bastards professionally devoted to politics in Spain, I evoke Ronald Reagan’s well-known phrase. Replace English with Spanish, and put the phrase within the mouths of any of the ineffective and imply individuals who throw themselves useless on the head.
They will not be far behind millennial troop of fools on social networks, gregarious and fanatics of the left and proper, who’re incapable of accepting immorality and the mediocrity of their very own leaders, unhappy as it could be. “I do not need to be an American fool/A nation managed by the media/The age of knowledge hysteria/Is calling America an fool.” This time it’s the lyrics of a Green Day music that places so many idiots on each side of the ocean in scenario who, really detached to the tragedy, shovel not the mud from the streets, however the mud of their miseries.
Meanwhile, on the opposite facet of the Atlantic, Trump and Harris are playing. The United States represents the essence of emotional polarization, of structural misinformationof knowledge hysteria. Rational and consultant democracy has given option to a morbid and compulsive democracy, through which absurdity and extravagance prevail. But beneath the floor of polar sentiments, Harris and Trump exhibit two totally different understandings of their patriotism.
While Trump aspires for the United States to as soon as once more be the good nation of the unique American dream, through which he doesn’t hesitate to loosen ties together with his outdated European companions by imposing extra tariffs on international commerce, Harris develops, with a sure ambivalence managed, within the protection of a multicultural nation, inclined to redistribute earnings and enhance public spending in areas the place Biden has failed miserably, equivalent to dependency. Actually, I’ve little question that each are prepared to dope the economic system with aggressive fiscal assist and preserve unsustainable funds imbalances. Even if they do not acknowledge it, they’re equal.
Everything will occur within the subsequent few hours. It is true that the United States, with the pandemic, ceased to be that plenipotentiary nation that led all worldwide crises. And additionally it is true that, since then, they’ve sought their place on the earth. Trump and Harris have the reply. And Europe is readythough we Europeans have been ready for a very long time, as if the reply needed to come from outdoors
