They create a distrustful and disoriented society that does not know where the truth lies because it has cultivated and used polarisation and psychopathic deception as its crutch and prop. Placed in negligence, authoritarianism or in an ideology that could not be developed within a consensus, a unity, a common project for the future, a united Nation, where 'All for the Fatherland' should be part of our project.
We are not at the end of anything, not even in a new normal, but at the beginning of something that may be very long and painful. And we are not able to see it as something global
In the previous crisis, while the countries around us responded by redoubling their commitment to knowledge, in Spain we responded with cuts in research and health. Not even the economic recovery changed the trend. At the beginning, everyone considered the health system to be one of the best in the world, but now it is beginning to look to the scientific and technological system, demanding tests, treatments and vaccines, but only imported ones. It would be logical that this crisis would bring greater interest in investment in knowledge, which in turn would bring more public investment and more stimulus for private investment, but nothing.
We have lived under the illusion of having placed health workers, farmers, police, Guardia Civil and others in their rightful place, but the virus has loosened and they are already attacking the Guardia Civil, wanting to demilitarise it, they are mistreating the salaries of ten thousand young doctors who will go on indefinite strike, they can see stone fruit harvests that are being left on the trees because of low prices.
Two hundred thousand tonnes of olive oil are stored while awaiting prices that match the cost of cultivation, and one hundred and fifty thousand tonnes are imported from Maghreb countries where they are not even remotely familiar with the health guarantees implemented in our olive groves. There are tremendous hailstorms and not a single image of the damage caused to the countryside, as it seems that we farmers are not affected by the damage.
They are busy enough on equality to spend half a million to track down attacks on equality, like threatening a company because it makes those little dolls that some homes put 'Here sleeps a princess and here a hero!
I have been a psychologist for fifty years and I do not know where they get their concepts of developmental psychology, on this issue and others for the teaching of sexuality in children. It seems to me to be profoundly mistaken and without scientific evidence to support their reforms.
Before the pandemic, nor now, there were a hundred thousand euros to buy the 'Mosquito', a crystallisation robot or dispenser of nano-drops (nano-litres) to dispense crystallisation plates for the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (National Centre for Oncological Research). For lack of this money, a line of research on cancer and for the study of quadruple DNA proteins for COVID-19 is suspended.
All the media space is once again taken up by politicians, trash TV programmes and talk shows, with no respect for the health and well-being we need when we go to bed, where we are presented with at least ten TV series full of violence. No more humour, no more intelligent dialogues, no more musicals and comedies. After a day of being shaken by the verbosity of the ministers, their strategies of subjugation and their communication aimed at those who assume that we are ignorant, despising the intelligence of the citizen and their manipulation by a common generation of politicians on all continents.
In these emotional conditions, half kidnapped and with the fear of death in their hearts, as well as uncertainty in various areas of the future, they continue with their imposition of an ideology without taking care of the forty thousand families that have been torn apart by the death of parents and grandparents, which they have not been interested in attending to. Because they have to deal with teaching the new sexuality and crushing the language with their inclusive language.
Pablo Iglesias, the national politician responsible for old people's homes, says that it is a crime what has been committed against them, and he honours himself with a guilty plea. The virus has taken away his job and potential voters for the right.
Another psychiatric symptom of our state and of the falsehood of looking after the underprivileged and social policies ... Francisco and his wife have been paying rent in a small flat since last February because a delinquent and his partner have moved into their villa. These protected thieves are called, we don't know why, 'squatters'. They are protected by Podemos. "They spent the confinement in my villa with a swimming pool, while I paid rent in a small flat with my wife and newborn child. A rare Spain subjected to thieves, with bars on windows due to historical tolerance of thieves, which will not be seen on windows or balconies anywhere in the world.
Led by those who want to do away with the Crown, with 'Todo por la Patria', an irritating name for nationalists and leftists who resent national unity, because they know that they will get nowhere with a united country. They resent the rag of the Flag, the pachanga of the National Anthem, religion, the rich, big business, the self-employed, subsidised education... In short, they want to do away with our way of life, with the Constitution we gave ourselves, and return to that magnificent paradise of Communism and the Republic that is giving so much joy in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and elsewhere. All this at a time when we are overwhelmed by threats and the lack of a project to confront them. And they are continuing to do their own thing over and above our health, our real concerns. They are attacking those elements that constitute our collective stability.
In Spain for almost eighty years, we have always had oppression, threats to those who have not followed what was considered politically correct at the time. With the same moral superiority and dominating arrogance for belonging to the Blue Division, Guerrillas of Christ the King, addicts to the Franco Regime, Falange, and now for being left-wing and worse because we have several dogmatic fronts threatening from their oral superiority..
We have been watched and threatened for flying the flag, or for protesting the poor management of the virus, and confined to our homes above any other nation.
Zapatero had already begun the perversion of Spanish History, to divide us, and the mellifluous Property Registrar, then President, did not want to cut through it. Amancio buys for us, all of us, five hundred million in devices for cancer treatment and is condemned. What can you expect from a people who attack a donation of such size? It is not only the politicians, but there are also many very dangerous people among us who have been encouraged and indoctrinated to do so.
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José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena
Specialist in psychiatry, management training, group and couple therapies.
