The motto of the entire Spanish left is not enough – let us not fall into frivolity – but one of the main choruses of a supposedly enlightened left, with more weight in the media: “If we talk, we can fix all of this.” The problem is Catalan, “all this”, and the solution you can reach is for Catalonia to stay in Spain. Perhaps that was and is the Spanish problem: that even those who wanted to show a more tolerant attitude did not accept that independence could be a solution. Not the only one, but one of the possible solutions.

In this sense, it has helped to simplify and collect the separation of Guillem Martínez – the process of the people, on the one hand; the official process driven by the parties in order to forgive or delay the cuts, on the other – to point out that what happened was a clash of two blind forces: The authoritarianism of the People ' s Party (which is a political trait) and the obstinacy of the independentists (which is the evil attributed to children). Jordi Évole summed it up better than anyone in an Olympic tweet: "What a mess! How bad, everything.”

That has come to explain to us once again that we can solve everything. In advance, of course, the independentists have to repent and accept that all this has served no purpose. On the other hand, the tolerant left which he is chairing will vote in favour of the freedom of political prisoners.

For another day, it will be outstanding that some Catalans – after being scourged on 1 October and after the king and the people of the national district sing unanimously “for them” – feel uncomfortable at some point, but are swallowed up that they have to continue living under that state.

All of this we can do by talking. But with whom?