Spain is experiencing extreme polarization that not even the Valencia drama has served to mitigate. It would seem that, faced with circumstances as exceptional as those experienced, political actors could – and should – find common scenarios to face the multiple and diverse challenges that DANA has left in its wake. Well, on the contrary, radicalization has increased and has even moved the scene of the confrontation to Brussels, putting the very election of the new Commission in check. Polarization does not contemplate any relaxation; As has been said, it is accentuated and more and more agreements appear to us as impossible that, for society as a whole, would be essential.
On more than one occasion it has been highlighted that the most common thing is that polarizing means as much as blocking. Polarization paralyzes. Decisions slow down, abandoning the immediacy that problems demand for their resolution. Very often the disagreement appears closer than its “why.” “No, of course” is easier than “conditional yes.” It gives the impression that one is more afraid of the difficult and tortuous path that leads to the encounter than of the ease with which one navigates the purposefully sought solitude. And this is bad; very bad We would have to accept and even understand that the pluralism of our society does not require us to live with the complexity of major decisions. Nothing is easy or linear in our contemporary society; everything is complex, difficult; Everything demands complicity between different policies and models. In a word: only the pact can accompany the social roots of the decisions that seek to address the great problems of our present. And, even more so, when it comes to building the future.
The politics of gesticulation must give way to the politics of management. And polarization distances us from this objective. It is evident that politics is more, much more, than a management catalogue. In the end, the values that frame a policy of progress, coexistence and well-being are decisive when applying a purely managerial policy. But this cannot and does not allow us to ignore that, in the end, citizens want to see their most basic problems resolved or have the perception that they are on the way to that. And polarization does not lead to this path; On the contrary, what it tries to do is take advantage of the difficulties rather than solve them. Polarization blocks progress.
Polarization tries to take advantage of
the difficulties rather than solving them
And Europe, at least a good part of it, coexists in this scenario of polarization. Some member states, Spain among them, transfer the discussion of their internal problems to Brussels. Or they attribute the difficulties they experience in their respective countries to the Commission. They proclaim themselves pro-European, but they do little to demonstrate it. And all this without wanting to accept that Europe is the solution, not the problem. Without wanting to see in Europe much more than a source of money to turn to to finance their particular projects. And with all this dragging the burden of a blocking polarization, even in the European Parliament itself.
And getting out of all this will not be easy. But it’s not impossible. What’s more, it is perfectly possible. In Spain, for example, the economic magnitudes offer significantly positive data. And this reality allows us to define clearer horizons than those contemplated a few years ago. Certainly, nothing is assured nor is the concern that serious problems and trumps distant ones provoke us. But there is room for hope. To achieve this, it is essential to reject systematic polarization. Contributing through basic, punctual and even intermittent agreements will always be better than submissively waiting for a blockade as a response. Thus, we all lose. And what it is about is winning the future. This is the great responsibility of those who currently have the political leadership of any country. There are no excuses that free you from this responsibility; which, by the way, obliges the opposition as much, and sometimes even more, as it does the governments themselves.
Only in this way will it be possible to win the future.
Source: www.lavanguardia.com
