Just a few months ago, I reflected upon the moral responsibility of successful and honest politicians in the past (if such entity exists) to step up and attempt bridling a country in decomposition. The shocking step-out from the first line of Esperanza Aguirre (politician who, as her name indicates, remained possibly the only certain hope for such a task) has put me in an angle from which my reflections spawn into a completely different direction.
The general public really does not know why she resigned on Monday 17th, although there are a number of plausible reasons. Most of them certainly have to weight one way or another towards Aguirre's final decision, but I happen to believe the argument that Esperanza brandished as the main, positive reason. "I never took really care of myself. I want to do it now, and be close to mine people", she said.
Because of the fainted political situation in Spain right now and the slender pillars on which its institutions support themselves this very day (utterly wretched circumstances), the light-hearted resolution of Esperanza has fallen like a massive anvil of concrete on people's brittle hearts. I mean, of course, people who admire and love her... Naturally, the same counterweight of hatred and aberration towards her liberalism, celebrated her retirement. The anvil has fallen all of a sudden and raised a tidal of lack of understanding. Now? Now when she is more needed? Did she not say that she will not give up?
The point is that Aguirre has not given up. In my view, she has just revealed her way of understanding politics. Against the common, historical role of a politician as that vocational being touched with the power to bend history and undergo social projects of savage proportions, being those good or evil, Aguirre seems to understand politics as a profession in itself consisting in going to work every day and setting into practice a collection of certain ideas and principles. She was (is) an ardent defender of the battle of ideas because she is convinced of the moral and technical superiority of liberalism against any kind of state interventionism. The task might be demanding, but it is just work. There is life after it! There is a family, there is a space for personal development beyond the public spot, there is room for intimacy. In this sense, she is unique: ideas are relevant, but not to the extend of undermine and overwhelm the individual. The opposite example can be found in Mariano Rajoy who, a few weeks ago, repeated two or three times in the course of a TV interview: "Be confident that I would do what I feel best for the country". I am shocked at the fact that nobody seems to rest in these terrible, authoritarian words. Mariano: I don't care what you feel; please, fulfill those actions you say you would do before the Spaniards gave you a landslide majority in the elections. You are beginning to be traitor and a liar, the empty tin man without a heart.
The most surprising part of the story has been the statement of Aguirre's enemy in the Parliament of Madrid, Tomas Gomez, not more than an insignificant socialist pawn, but always, daily, Aguirre's punchbag. His words seems sincere with acknowledgement and recognition, by far more honest and significant than any pronounced by the Aguirre's fellows of the Popular Party. The guy has proved to be much smarter and good-hearted than he seems, but also has revealed himself ignoble and soaked in cowardice: such is the nature of the hideous game he plays.
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The general public really does not know why she resigned on Monday 17th, although there are a number of plausible reasons. Most of them certainly have to weight one way or another towards Aguirre's final decision, but I happen to believe the argument that Esperanza brandished as the main, positive reason. "I never took really care of myself. I want to do it now, and be close to mine people", she said.
Because of the fainted political situation in Spain right now and the slender pillars on which its institutions support themselves this very day (utterly wretched circumstances), the light-hearted resolution of Esperanza has fallen like a massive anvil of concrete on people's brittle hearts. I mean, of course, people who admire and love her... Naturally, the same counterweight of hatred and aberration towards her liberalism, celebrated her retirement. The anvil has fallen all of a sudden and raised a tidal of lack of understanding. Now? Now when she is more needed? Did she not say that she will not give up?
The point is that Aguirre has not given up. In my view, she has just revealed her way of understanding politics. Against the common, historical role of a politician as that vocational being touched with the power to bend history and undergo social projects of savage proportions, being those good or evil, Aguirre seems to understand politics as a profession in itself consisting in going to work every day and setting into practice a collection of certain ideas and principles. She was (is) an ardent defender of the battle of ideas because she is convinced of the moral and technical superiority of liberalism against any kind of state interventionism. The task might be demanding, but it is just work. There is life after it! There is a family, there is a space for personal development beyond the public spot, there is room for intimacy. In this sense, she is unique: ideas are relevant, but not to the extend of undermine and overwhelm the individual. The opposite example can be found in Mariano Rajoy who, a few weeks ago, repeated two or three times in the course of a TV interview: "Be confident that I would do what I feel best for the country". I am shocked at the fact that nobody seems to rest in these terrible, authoritarian words. Mariano: I don't care what you feel; please, fulfill those actions you say you would do before the Spaniards gave you a landslide majority in the elections. You are beginning to be traitor and a liar, the empty tin man without a heart.
The most surprising part of the story has been the statement of Aguirre's enemy in the Parliament of Madrid, Tomas Gomez, not more than an insignificant socialist pawn, but always, daily, Aguirre's punchbag. His words seems sincere with acknowledgement and recognition, by far more honest and significant than any pronounced by the Aguirre's fellows of the Popular Party. The guy has proved to be much smarter and good-hearted than he seems, but also has revealed himself ignoble and soaked in cowardice: such is the nature of the hideous game he plays.
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