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Propaganda inevitably tends to distance itself from the truth and hence one of the functions of journalism is to hold on to the discourse of politicians to prevent propaganda from making it fly. Of course, now that the verification - the factcheck is called at harvardcete , as Emilia Landaluce would say - has broken away from journalism as if it were one more genre - the chronicle, the interview and the verification - you will know.

It has been an unfortunate week for politics. The jurists expressed their doubts about whether it is possible to apply the 155 with the dissolved Senate, the Constitutional denied that the National Security Law allows the Government to take over Mossos d'Esquadra and the acting Government itself demonstrated that the Government in functions lied when he said he could not give the Autonomous Communities the money that corresponds to him. The unfortunate thing for politics is that the three news severely affect the credibility of PP, Cs and PSOE, three parties that are intended to be central, that is to say that they trust their success so that people continue to believe in politics.

There is a long line of demagogues , which goes from Tiberius Graco to Boris Johnson , who always thrives on believing that the procedures are a trap for the faint hearted. When, as is happening now, Graco's children manage to discredit the deliberative processes that make up the mechanism of democracies, people are more prone to leadership. This is the hope of Podemos - or its divisions - that fantasizes about nationalizing the light or the Abascal who dreams of imprisoning Torra by executive order. Let the idea, so seductive and plausible, extend that the absence of its limits will set you free, when it is precisely the opposite. In them it is the natural, this autocratic desire , hence the really dangerous thing is this inclination of the centrality parties towards sorcery.

The messages of a campaign are almost always designed showing the recipient a huge laziness . That is why the long electoral cycles dramatically impoverish the conversation. The perpetuation of the campaign in Spain has turned lies and precipitation into habit , and parties that pretend to be guardians of the system behave too frequently as those who inhabit the periphery. This is promising, through negligence or deception, inapplicable formulas . It will be very difficult to recompose the gears - the happy deliberation - after this wear of years.

The speech flies already far from the ground, in the mesosphere, and compared to this electoral cost, the envelope is a trifle.

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