In \"Life of Brian (1979) there is a memorable scene starring the activists of the People's Front of Judea in a secret meeting.<\/p>\n
The group leader asks: \"What have the Romans ever done for us?<\/strong>\" The attendees begin to list contributions from Rome: the aqueduct, the sewage system, the roads, the irrigation, the wine... Among the responses, one of the most valuable inheritances of millions of Europeans is missed<\/strong>, a heritage that we Spaniards and Portuguese transmit in two of its vulgar forms to a large part of America: Latin<\/strong>, a language that still survives in Spanish today and fills many of the words in our dictionary with meaning.<\/p>\n One of those words is \"poner\" (put).<\/strong> By adding prefixes, you can obtain derived words with multiple meanings: proponer, imponer, oponer, suponer, reponer<\/strong>, anteponer, contraponer, descomponer, disponer, interponer, posponer...<\/em> The verb to put and its lexical family can serve to summarize Spanish politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n For example, the Socialist Party (PSOE) practices the verb \"imponer\" (impose) a lot.<\/strong> It uses it to subject us to his ideology in different areas and to colonize the institutions with like-minded people<\/a>, in order to put them at your service. This attitude is what leads him to confuse the State with the party, the first step to submerge himself in political corruption<\/strong>, in which the PSOE is now immersed up to the top of its head.<\/p>\n Faced with the socialist imposition, the hope of many democrats appears in another word derived from \"poner\": \"oponer\" (oppose)<\/strong>. In Spain, theoretically the main opposition party is the Popular Party (PP), but when push comes to shove, the only real opposition that seems to exist is Vox<\/strong>. Yesterday we had a new example of this: in the face of the scandals that have been affecting Pedro S\u00e1nchez's wife, yesterday Vox announced that it will request the appearance of Bego\u00f1a G\u00f3mez in Congress and the Senate<\/a>, within the framework of the investigative commissions for corruption cases affecting the Socialist Party.<\/p>\n What the Popular Party has done in this case is not opposition, but another word derived from the verb to put: \"depose\"<\/strong>. In Spain, this verb is widely used in its sense of depriving someone of their job or position, but the PP has applied it in another of its most common uses<\/strong>, that of the expression \"deponer las armas\" (lay down your arms)<\/a>, which indicates surrender. Yesterday it was learned that the PP will not call Bego\u00f1a to testify G\u00f3mez or even S\u00e1nchez<\/a> to those investigative commissions. One more surrender. This attitude of surrender to the dogmas and demands of the left<\/strong> is what the PP has been practicing for many years, to the misfortune of Spain.<\/p>\n
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