After another 40 years this
It's a slogan that always helps us, helps us and helps us in our lives. I do not know any other more appropriate phrase to put frustration in words.
The first symptoms were seen in Madrid and Spain, new feathers that incarnated the rebels of May and the messages of their rebel voices, many of those born when Franco died (a year or so), when they began to suspect that the so-called democratic transition was a fraud. A veteran who is much more veteran than them, Vincent Navarro, summed up the concern in a single syntagm that he often repeats: “The (in)modal transition”.
Then, getting closer, reading one and the other's, we saw that the transition was a bluff, it's not just the impression that we remember running before the grays.
Ramón Zallo, for example, considers that Basque policy remains a prisoner of the Transition (22 November 2015), that one of the most worrying consequences of the “weak democratic model” left by the Transition has been precisely the “degradation of human rights”, while Francisco Etxeberria says that in the Transition the same or very similar things have not been touched or continued and that we live with that heritage: The dictator remains in the Ministry of the Interior; Miguel Sánchez Ostiz continues to assert that today there is a reflection of an authoritarian and anti-democratic way of understanding the politics that Franco has left, because the ideas of Franco have “splintered” a whole society and that has been inherited from generation to generation. Today he tells us that we live in a police state, what’s more, that it’s a people that can’t be liberated from the past, and he links that impotence to what happened in the transition, because most of the politicians of the last Franco continued: With UCD, Fraga, the socialist party... And because behind the politicians there was a whole social class.
However, it is not usual to hear words such as those of Francisco Etxeberria, who are heading towards self-criticism: “I also frequently ask myself where I was at that time, what I thought, what I said... Unfortunately, we all have this impregnation.”
It is much more common to hear the voices of those who are calling for self-criticism from those who were in favour of rupture during the Transition, permanently, today and tomorrow.
Of course, we will all have to make self-criticism, too, I suppose, of those who have immediately given full legitimacy to the new regime and have caused more than forty years of frustration.
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