Pedro Sánchez's face deserves a place above Wolverine's adamantium

When I was a child, I became interested in comics. I used to buy them at a kiosk on Elduayen Street, in Bayona.

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That's when I first came across the "X Men", although in Spain comics were then called "Patrullaa X". One of the most surprising was always Wolverine, a superhero who is now very famous thanks to the films in which Hugh Jackman plays the character. His real name was James Logan, he had retractable claws coming out of his hands and his skeleton was made of adamantium, an almost indestructible metal. Thanks to this, his metal claws could cut through any object, even the hardest ones, as if it were made of butter.

If adamantium existed in the real world, it would be harder than diamond. Tungsten would be surpassed by the metal that made Wolverine's claws one of the most dangerous weapons in the Marvel universe. However, there would be one material that even Wolverine would be useless with. Yesterday, we Spaniards saw this material in action, demonstrating its undeniable hardness.

While he has his wife, his brother, his attorney general and the last two general secretaries of his party indicted for various crimes, and after committing the greatest act of corruption in our democracy (granting criminal privileges in the form of an amnesty to his separatist partners in exchange for their parliamentary support), after attacking journalists and judges investigating corruption scandals related to his entourage and demonstrating boundless shamelessness, Pedro Sánchez has boasted about the cleanliness of his government and has announced measures against corruption.

This theatrical spectacle has taken place two years after Sánchez downgraded the crime of embezzlement to please his separatist partners who had been convicted of it, also as payment to obtain their support for his re-election, and while his government is trying to carry out an express reform to control the Justice and prevent further investigation into socialist corruption.

Under these conditions, Sánchez presenting himself as a fighter against corruption is a case of colossal cynicism. It's as if the Ku Klux Klan were to call itself a leader in the fight against racism, or as if Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin were to portray themselves as great democrats and defenders of human rights.

The most ridiculous thing is that many people on the left swallow this, which was predictable. The left has been establishing two very different moral standards for politics for many years: the left is always judged by its intentions, which are assumed to be good, while the right is judged by its actions or is simply demonized for the mere fact of disagreeing with the left.

No matter what abuses a socialist or a communist commits: for many leftists, they will always be justified, because they did it for equality, justice, solidarity, or any other noble concept with which the left usually disguises its misdeeds. And it doesn't matter how honorable a right-wing politician is, because they are right-wing, and for the left, that automatically makes them a bad person. In this way, the left is becoming a sect in which anything goes to achieve a specific political goal or, simply, to use it as an excuse to excuse any vileness, any lie, any cheating, and any crime. This is how guys with a face as hard as Sánchez's thrive, a face whose hardness deserves a place above Wolverine's adamantium.

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