There is no greater tactical advantage than to find out what it is that your adversary cannot stop doing even if he knows that it hurts him. Hence the usefulness of the decoy in the eternal dispute between the sneaky characters, who dominate the ruse -ulisaicos, called them Threshold - and those who feel obliged to meet the expectations of a frontal reputation, although they know that by doing so they fall into a trap.

To Zapatero , who is generally not easy to find a virtue, it must be recognized that he understood and used it. The Historical Memory was the decoy conceived so that a right suffocated by dynastic adjudications, instead of being released, was portrayed as a character culturally condemned to remain trapped in the Civil War. Similarly, new social rights also served for the right to take to the streets to star in a sinister reaction, between banners of the guerrillas of Christ the King, which alienated her from her own western time. So much need you have to forgive him, who still goes to Pride every year, as in an accepted penance, to be covered with insults.

In many ways, Sánchez is a follower of Zapatero, with a much greater impudence. The use of Historical Memory is similar, but bolder. Sanchez, directly, raised the previous elections as a resumption of the Civil War in which the left-wing voter was summoned to enlist in the "They will not pass!", With good forecasts this time regarding the outcome of the contest. Here we reach the remains of Franco . That, within that permanent campaign of himself, they have allowed Sánchez nothing less than to declare himself the author of a founding event of democracy with which, now yes, the Transition is done. Or not yet, we'll see.

To the extent that Franco's remains were also a decoy, a part of the right, the most demanded by a frontal reputation, has fallen into the trap. Because the now famous cultural war that prevents rightists engaged in an internal competition to do or say anything so weak that they can betray them as progress they loosen - " Boia chi molla !" - is added to the usual environment.

To the enormous satisfaction of Sánchez's trap designers, and on the eve of the elections, this circumstance has allowed that, just by shaking a lukewarm from Franco, a community president who supposedly represents a generation of the young and integrated PP in the 21st century expressed in a plenary session his conviction that the churches of Madrid are in danger of being attacked by incendiary mobs.

He has done that a part of the Spanish right does not know how to justify how much he is upset that Franco is touched, that he has shown a mountainous inclination to discredit and disregard the magistracies when they do not satisfy him, that he has felt comfortable fantasizing even with Tartar hordes and, when the defense of a media Spain that would be sentimentally attached to Franco, to accept the historical portrait that she always made the left when she put into circulation the idea that nothing to the right of the PSOE could exist that It did not come from fascism and was not guilty forever of that original sin. The hereditary murderers of Lorca , go.

It is not average that Spain aggrieved by the emptying of the Valley. In fact, it is residual. So much so that the aggrieved are now the Spaniards who, not being leftist, discover that, in the 21st century, they run the risk of running out of space again because of the raptures of casticism and war folklore.

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