The two most serious fractures that Spain has lived since the restoration of democracy have led to the irruption of the parties that went bankrupt, it seems that definitely, the comfortable and practicable bipartisan alternation in our country. In 2008 the social contract that sustains the welfare state in liberal democracies was broken: "You get rich with my work but I, and mine, are making progress." In 2017, Catalan independence movement broke the constitutional agreement: "We are many and different, our relationships are sometimes tense and sometimes fluid, but we are together on this journey." The first fracture led on We can fly to Congress; the second had first illuminated Citizens and, after the separatist autumn, gave Vox wings, even if the ultras add some other type of vote. The two fractures are still open and the two parties that lead the two ways to close them remain PSOE and PP, quartered, shrunken, but still majority in their ideological spheres.
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The smell of the poor- Parasite
But are there really two ways to close the gaps in the world right now? Because the two fractures are related and the two transcend Spain. The hegemonic thinking that runs through the rich planet translates into the same slogans with local nuances: America first, take back control, the best-alone Catalans, and Spain for the Spanish. We all know that this leads to disaster, but the theoretical formulation and political practice against it is limited to patching local disasters of an economic globalization without political governance. In the morning we say that nationalism condemns failure, and in the afternoon each country approves its Google rate, because there is no way for multilateral organizations to establish a common criterion for paying taxes to large dot.com. Fighting nationalism making it clear that only at the national level are you trying to give solutions does not seem like a great idea.
And what about the class struggle 21st century version, which, according to the devotees of the film Parasites, reflects as no one the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho. The film is recommended, with dramatic findings such as the smell of poor hitting, not in the nose, but in the stomach. But with a final conclusion - eye, spoiler - at the height of time: get rich and free your father from his chains.
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