Zapatero, the Spanish left and its curious notion of what a 'good person' is

The indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is generating some very significant reactions among the left.

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One of the most common arguments we've seen since Tuesday against this indictment is to claim that Zapatero is a good person and, therefore, innocent. To be honest, in legal proceedings, the process for determining someone's innocence or guilt doesn't depend on a subjective assessment of their goodness, as if that were enough to whitewash their actions. Judges issue their rulings based on evidence and indications, and so far the courts have found sufficient evidence to investigate the former Socialist leader for several crimes, something that must be taken into serious consideration.

Furthermore, for years the Spanish left has been developing a very simplistic concept of a person's goodness or badness, a concept that doesn't depend on the person's actions, but rather on their ideological affiliation. Basically, for the left, a person is good if they are left-wing and bad if they are right-wing, regardless of what the facts say. One need only recall the campaign of insults, defamation, and slander launched by the left against an excellent person like Saint Teresa of Calcutta, a woman who dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor, but who, in the eyes of the left, was despicable simply because she didn't subscribe to the left's ideological dogmas, such as abortion.

The left doesn't care about your actions, but about your political activism. For years they've tried to sell us a terrorist like Arnaldo Otegui, who was convicted of kidnapping and still refuses to condemn the numerous crimes of the terrorist group ETA, as a "man of peace," outrageously whitewashing one of the most despicable figures in Spanish politics.

Coincidentally, Zapatero was one of his whitewashers 20 years ago, when he stated that "Otegi has given a speech for peace," a phrase that was not a mere coincidence: it was part of the political negotiation process initiated by the then Prime Minister with the terrorist group ETA, a process with which Zapatero prevented the Police and the Justice system from completing the defeat of a criminal gang. which was already on the ropes, facilitating the legalization of its political wing through a Constitutional Court controlled by the Socialists. The Socialists needed the support of the pro-ETA far left and opened the doors of the institutions to them, without any moral scruples. As part of that pact, in 2022 the PSOE voted against the European Union investigating the 379 unsolved ETA murders.

No matter how much effort socialist propaganda makes to whitewash this vileness. These acts are not those of good people, but of truly despicable individuals, just as it is despicable that Pedro Sánchez's government is in power today thanks to an alliance with EH Bildu, a party that refuses to condemn ETA's 853 murders, including the murders of 22 children and babies.

Moreover, the facts that have recently come to light, along with the former Socialist president's own public actions, indicate that Zapatero had no qualms about doing business with and acting as a supporter of dictatorships like Venezuela and China, two criminal regimes that violate the most basic human rights, have kept millions of people oppressed for many years, and use violence, torture, and murder to stifle any criticism of their power. A good person doesn't do business with criminal regimes like these: unscrupulous people do, people who believe that anything goes to obtain personal gain, even associating with the worst scum of humanity and helping to whitewash their image in the West.

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Photo: PSOE.