{"id":57191,"date":"2024-09-23T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57191"},"modified":"2024-09-25T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T04:46:56","slug":"criticize-the-parties-and-the-politicians-but-please-leave-jordi-sabate-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/23\/criticize-the-parties-and-the-politicians-but-please-leave-jordi-sabate-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticize the parties and the politicians but please leave Jordi Sabat\u00e9 alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two days it will be four years since I published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/09\/25\/el-lamento-de-un-enfermo-de-ela-al-ver-que-pablo-iglesias-ignora-sus-peticiones-de-ayuda\/\">my first article<\/a> about an excellent person whom I admire.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/02\/06\/viva-la-vida-the-exclamation-of-an-als-patient-that-moved-penelope-cruz\/\">'\u00a1Viva la vida!' The exclamation of an ALS patient that moved Pen\u00e9lope Cruz<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/21\/sanchez-rejects-giving-38-million-to-als-patients-while-wasting-92-million-on-advertising\/\">S\u00e1nchez rejects giving 38 million to ALS patients while wasting 92 million on advertising<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>At that time, <strong>Jordi Sabat\u00e9 Pons<\/strong> was very little known. When I decided to make his case known on this blog, it was because <strong>he suffers from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a degenerative and incurable disease<\/strong> that entails great expenses for patients and their families, and four years ago <strong>Jordi asked the Spanish government for help to have a decent life and not be pushed towards euthanasia<\/strong>. It took a long time for them to finally pay attention to him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today Jordi is already famous<\/strong> and he meets with very well-known people (what each of us thinks of these people is our problem). In addition, <strong>he has achieved the dream for which he has fought so hard: the approval of the ALS Law<\/strong> to help patients like him, with the support of all parties. <strong>It is something that deserves to be celebrated<\/strong> in a country where political discussions always divide us on very important issues.<\/p>\n<p>Incomprehensibly, <strong>after achieving this goal with so much effort, Jordi is receiving a lot of criticism<\/strong> for taking a photo with the president of the government, Pedro S\u00e1nchez. Logically, Jordi is hurt and has expressed it as such. As you know, <strong>my opinion of S\u00e1nchez is terrible, but it would never occur to me to criticize Jordi for seeking everyone's support for the ALS Law<\/strong>, even the support of people and parties that have been blocking this law for a long time, as is the case of the PSOE. <strong>Those who should be criticized are those who blocked this law, not Jordi.<\/strong> He has enough to do with suffering from this terrible disease.<\/p>\n<p>For years, <strong>Jordi has been showing that he is a person who loves and celebrates life. A great person who deserves admiration<\/strong>. Jordi Sabat\u00e9 does not deserve criticism. What he deserves is a monument for what he has achieved for ALS patients with so much effort and tenacity. <strong>If you want to criticize someone, criticize the parties and politicians<\/strong>, focus your complaints on them for what they did or did not do in the process of drafting the ALS Law, <strong>but please leave Jordi alone<\/strong>. It is tremendously unfair that now, when he has the most to celebrate, certain messages that should be addressed to politicians and parties are directed against him.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, <strong>I think that sometimes we go too far with politics<\/strong>. And I say this in the first person because I am the first to recognize my responsibility in this regard. <strong>We are so immersed in the political struggle that we forget that people like Jordi only have one side: that of life.<\/strong> From that bed, with an electronic voice that expresses what his vocal cords can no longer pronounce, <strong>Jordi has been celebrating life for years and giving us a lesson in humanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Christian, <strong>I know that Christ can be where I least expect him:<\/strong> in a poor person asking for help, in a person who suffers from loneliness and who no one listens to, in someone who suffers from violence and no one comes to their aid, and also in a sick person who is bedridden and asks for support to be able to lead a dignified life. <strong>Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Jordi, for celebrating life<\/strong> as you do, and congratulations on your success with the ALS Law. <strong>You have all my admiration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sbXH63jizaw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordi Sabat\u00e9 Pons<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two days it will be four years since I published my first article about an excellent person whom I admire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10732],"tags":[19788,19787,14267],"class_list":["post-57191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-als-law-spain","tag-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-als","tag-jordi-sabate-pons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}