The PP and the response of a lonely bird sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas

Hace cuatro años que descubrí esta bonita fotografía de Anthony Tori. Su autor la tomó en Islandia el 5 de agosto de 2016.

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I've used this image, published on Unsplash, to illustrate a few articles. Specifically, those that reminded me of a quote from Cyrano de Bergerac that I've always kept in mind on this blog: "possibly not flying very high, but alone."

There are people who seem unable to understand why others of us have no desire to renounce our principles to take shelter under some tree whose shade might be beneficial to us. As I mentioned here two years ago, gregariousness, the human tendency to group together with others, has its advantages as well as its disadvantages. I think most people tend to focus primarily on the advantages. I'm one of those rare types who focuses on the disadvantages, especially because of my experience in politics.

All this nonsense I'm telling you has to do with a news story published yesterday by Abc: "The PP launches into Vox's anti-Trump vote to regain ground". I confess that this news made me laugh, because besides being a lonely guy, the big problem I have with politicians is my good memory. Every time I hear the name of the Popular Party, the year 2009 jumps into my memories: it was when Alberto Núñez Feijóo confirmed the deception to the Galicians who voted for him with his promise of "linguistic freedom."

It's not my favorite bird (I like sparrows better), but every time someone suggests I vote for the PP again, I become like the raven in Edgar Allan Poe's poem, who, sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas, repeated a single word: "Nevermore".

It's the expression that comes from my soul when someone suggests that I risk being deceived again, that I offer my trust to a party that has been throwing its principles overboard, adopting the ideological theses of the left on issues such as abortion, gender ideology, social democratic economic recipes or climate catastrophism. A PP that has been flirting with the Chinese Communist Party for years, the sole party of the largest dictatorship in the world.

Nevermore.

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Photo: Anthony Tori.