The day Pablo Iglesias's 'guts' fell to the floor in the Congress elevator

For many years, far-left movements have been composed of two clearly differentiated classes of people.

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The deluded

The largest class is made up of deluded people who swallow ideological stories that sell easy solutions to difficult problems. You want equality? Well, we'll just do away with social classes. It will be a piece of cake. Then it turns out that you have neither equality nor freedom, and that the Tsar's place has been taken by even worse guys, as Russia found out when Lenin and his Bolsheviks came to power through a coup d'état, liquidating the newborn Russian democracy, and murdering more than a million people in six years, violently suppressing labor strikes and protests the most discontented, often taking their families hostage.

The charlatans

The second class of the far left is made up of unscrupulous charlatans, sellers of ideological hair growth products who take advantage of other people's credulity to do business. Because yes, communism turned out to be big business for the communist elite. Mediocre types became immensely rich at the expense of plunging their people into misery. The examples have been repeated to this day: Hugo Chávez stole billions from Venezuelans while leading his country to levels of misery never seen before there. Something similar happened with other charlatans like Fidel Castro and Nicolás Maduro. But they all look like beggars next to Stalin, the richest European in history after Caesar Augustus.

The case of Pablo Iglesias Turrión

It's impossible not to think of those charlatans when listening to a guy like Pablo Iglesias Turrión. Yesterday, at an event for his communist party, Podemos, that guy called for "busting the Spanish right" and added: "But to do that, you have to have guts." Reading this, he seems to be two news broadcasts away from starting to prescribe shots in the back of the head. Of course, in case some idiot has believed this harangue that seems to have come from an overdose of testosterone, it should be noted that it will not be him who will get his hands dirty: in any case, he will send his butler to do the job, or perhaps some idiot willing to "bust" right-wingers because he is annoyed by people who contradict the left.

From an apartment in Vallecas to a luxury villa in Galapagar

In September 2015, Pablo Iglesias showed Telecinco his modest 60-square-meter apartment in Vallecas. It was a propaganda operation that captured many dreamers. Three months later, in the general elections of December 20, 2015, Podemos won 69 deputies and 9 senators and Pablo Iglesias landed in Congress, receiving a salary of 69,515.18 euros per year. The deal had been a profitable one, and the results were about to be known. After spending years ranting against "the caste", in 2018 Iglesias and his partner, fellow Podemos MP Irene Montero, moved into a luxurious villa in Galapagar. It was one of the reasons why Podemos began to deflate: in April 2019 it won 33 seats in Congress and without any senators, and a few months later it reduced and was left with 26 seats in Congress.

Despite this, the PSOE and Podemos reached an agreement to govern together in January 2020. Pablo Iglesias became vice president of the government and his partner, Irene Montero, was appointed Minister of Equality, giving rise to many suspicious thinks that she was not there precisely because of her merits. Thus, Iglesias, who in 2012 got turned on watching left-wing extremists kicking police officers, began to have a police escort even after leaving the government. His spiel about "the caste" had vanished a long time ago, as it no longer fooled anyone. Now, with only four deputies left, Podemos is trying to attract attention with extremist statements and violent attitudes. More hair-raising for the deluded who still bite.

A meeting with Santiago Abascal in an elevator

It should be noted that Pablo Iglesias is now bragging that he's going to "explode" the right (in any case, he'll manage to infuriate some dim-witted young man who'll end up in prison while Iglesias watches TV or scratches his belly in his chalet). The fact is that six years ago he had that opportunity but he lacked the "guts" he now boasts about, in an attempt to provoke others to do what he didn't have the guts to do when circumstances allowed him to.

That moment came in May 2019, when the founder of Podemos had already been a deputy for three years and the ideological adrenaline rush of his electoral career had given way to the soft sound of his shoes on the Parliament's carpets. One day, Iglesias ran into Santiago Abascal, president of Vox, and other members of that party in the Congress elevator. The right-wing deputy was on crutches after suffering an accident. It was a good opportunity to display the lack of scruples that the communist agitator prescribed yesterday, but instead, Iglesias was very affable and recommended a physiotherapist to Abascal:

The invoices, in the name of Pablo Iglesias

That elevator anecdote is the one that best portrays the founder of Podemos. The charlatan has spent years preaching violence, saying that fear would change sides and threatening the right with his revolutionary anger, like a Lenin apprentice. But when the time came, his "guts" fell out, bouncing off the floor of the Congress elevator. There will be other idiots who, unlike him, believe his words and are willing to attack others so that the left doesn't have to listen to that unbearable melody formed by differing opinions. Of course, when that day comes, Iglesias will have to be held accountable, both financially and criminally, for what others have ruined by following his advice, because the one who commits the crime is just as guilty as the one who instigates it.

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