Before going into the subject I will say something in defense of all politicians that will not be very popular: you have to be very brave, or very crazy or very stupid to agree to face the children's questions and do it on television.
You have to be very prepared or be as elusive as a snake so as not to screw it up . There are very few who get it, practically none, but for a reason that remains inexplicable for me they do not learn and continue to fall into the same trap. José Luis Martínez-Almeida , mayor of Madrid, has been his last victim.
Man is the only animal that stumbles twice on the same stone and thus goes to our political class. The last to fall in this well that is children and television has been the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida . The mayor of the capital had the great idea - or maybe his team had it - of going to a school , entering one of his classes and submitting to the questions of about twenty children . As if for being children they were not going to crush you!
It is not really the children who crush, it is the politicians who crush themselves . They stand in front of children and believe that because they are children, they can tell them anything, tell them anything and argue anything that is going to give them the same. Oh, poor innocents! If there is something very bad for a politician, it is what cannot be controlled, and children cannot be controlled.
It was in the program of Telemadrid The return to school , in which famous people return to school to undergo the unpredictable test of a group of Madrid students, where Martínez-Almeida decided to fight. As my grandfather used to say "Manolete if you don't know how to fight to get in . " And they do not learn.
On Sunday night, when the program was broadcast, it went unnoticed, but it was not going to take the perfect storm . Politician + children + uncontrolled responses + monumental crap. Social networks were once again the eye that sees everything and did not let the moments pass-by calling them somehow -Martínez-Almeida with children.
I don't know if the questions will be prepared, if they will be prepared with their tutors, with their parents or with their friends at recess, or is it really that the Madrid students are milk, but they are almost always questions that at first glance seem easy for He who submits to them, but behind - and not so behind - are a true poison .
The Sunday program for Martínez-Almeida was none other than "if you could donate money to a site, where would it be? Notre Dame Cathedral or to save the Amazon?" . To many it may seem an easy question, it seems easy to me and those around me too, but the mayor of Madrid got into a puddle that neither the quicksand.
His response was clear: "To the Notre Dame Cathedral" . It was to say it and the face of the children became a poem and not of Francisco de Quevedo but of Edgar Allan Poe himself. "But why? If the Amazon is the lung of the world, and it has many trees and many plants," the children asked. And although he did not give the feeling that Martínez-Almeida could not get out of the quagmire where he had gone, he threw the rest until he buried himself: "Yes, the Amazon is the lung of the world and they have many trees, but Notre Cathedral Dame is a symbol of Europe and the best things that have happened to us in Spain are having infested in the European Union. " Wait, I get better.
There is an image of one of the girls sitting in the front row that is to frame and send it to Martínez-Almeida by carrier pigeon. The eyes wide, the body back, is the absolute image of disbelief. There are two types of communication, verbal communication and no verba. This second one includes gestures, images, sounds ... Well , the girl's gesture was the gesture of 'what the hell is she saying!' .
In the background Martínez-Almeida did well, said what he really thought and said it completely convinced that if he had to donate money he would do it to save Notre Dame, the crap - and very fat - comes when you want to argue without telling the truth.
It is the explanation of the mayor of Madrid that leaves all patities, that is to say that you would give money for Notre Dame because it is a symbol of Europe and we are Europeans and you forget that the Amazon is the lung of the world and that Europe, Spain and Notre Dame are in the world . It is wanting to explain what cannot be explained.
If when the children asked him why he would give it to Notre Dame, Martínez-Almeida would have said a simple one because yes or because it is a historical monument, his answer would have been commented, but in petit committee, without penalty or glory. Now, when some children are aware of the importance of the lung of the world , when they tell it, when they point it out to them, and the mayor of Madrid - the mayor of Madrid! - justifies himself so, that there is something that in the world of politics is not working.
And if only he had stayed in that, well look, Martínez-Almeida, a few hours in the arena of tweeting mockeries and here peace and then glory, but there was much more, is what happens when you think that those who You answer is not up to par. Children have to be treated like children, but not as if they were assholes , a teacher once told me to hear me address my 4-year-old son and the explanation I was giving him why I had to go to school every day. days.
From the Amazon and Notre Dame to the differences between the left and the right. "The difference between the left and the right, in my opinion - thank God - what is it? We are going to put all the means for you to decide what you want to be. The left, however, will want to decide for you . " Luckily, the children didn't pay him a damn case because they were shouting at Pelao counting the seconds he had left to answer. Could we talk about manipulation, about trying to indoctrinate the kids? Jo, how this all sounds to me. I leave it there, judge for yourself.
The result, of the good thing that Martínez-Almeida's participation in the return to school left - such as his level of English or his ability to communicate with children - or a trace. Only Martínez-Almeida was seen giving answers that have outraged many of the people of Madrid, which have caused many to laugh at him, instead of serving to show another image of Martínez-Almeida , in another environment, with others interlocutors, has served to match the bitumen.
You have to be very brave to face the children and do it in prime time, but above all you have to be very bold. A real daredevil, let's leave it there .
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