If a real referendum had been called in October 2017, my vote could have ended up supporting the independence of Catalonia. The beating of citizens, when they just participated in a symbolic Simulacrum, It turned my guts so bad that it could have clouded my reason. And the King’s subsequent speech didn’t help calm me down either. All of this despite the fact that I had previously been outraged and saddened – I narrated it live for SER – when the pro-independence majority imposed a law in Parliament that, breaking the rules and ignoring half of the Catalans, opened the door to disconnection with Spain.
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A door that supreme court he would take over after closing abruptly, putting the main leaders of that movement in jail; not to all, as is known, because some fled; and out there they continue, boasting of being -I would not call them exactly that- political exiles. I know that substituting emotions for arguments is bad business, but sometimes the force of facts prevails over intellectual flourishes. And in October 2017, at least hot, I think something like that happened to many of us.
Now I smell that it could be repeated with the revelation of the espionage to the independence movement and the disgusting recordings that confirm the existence of a state plot to combat it. That the inducers -or authors- of such an outrage have not had criminal charges until now is still striking. Because those who went to the mountains in search of independence were people who pursued a political objective breaking the law, okay. But those who tapped phones, spied on people and hatched hoaxes to discredit political opponents also broke the law, right? Although all this is serious, what worries me the most is that some of those in Catalonia who still hope that coexistence could be restored one day without further damage end up throwing in the towel in the face of what the elites of a country are offering which, seen with the latest royal soap opera, it might as well be called ‘Borbonia’.