This year, yes, the 'last' Diada

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No one warned this chronicler that fate would make him a critic of Diadas. They are already many consecutive, so that I cool down and I share the difficulty of the militants to keep prose in a temperature of exceptionality, which would correspond to the haze of our lives.

The stacking of Diadas, each of them aspiring to be the historical fethe, is seen in a small chromatic dysfunction that this Wednesday affected the already mythical Korean monolithism of the independence happenings . There were people who, having paid for the shirt of previous calls, preferred to pay it off rather than invest again in this year's. So, mottling the almost legionary green - a citrus green as a substitute shirt for Barsa - that was regulatory in this edition of the 19, yellow and red flashes evoked past Diadas that, like this Wednesday, thought they were going to Be the last of the captive republic of Spain before its emancipation. There are so many definitive Diadas that there are already vintage t-shirts, as in football. Time was more benign. Not only did it not rain but, on a sunny day, a perfect wind blew to keep the flags enhiestas, which has to please those people whose relationship with the sense of belonging is summed up in that phrase pronounced by the wives of Fort's detachment Apache who watched their husbands get lost in the dust: "I only see the flags." See only the flags and their emotional and terroir pringue, not the law, not people born free and equal.

At noon, before the streets radiating from the Plaza de España were saturated, forming a bicycle wheel, the independence hikers perched on the viewpoint at the top of the shopping center into which they have converted the old bullring of The Sands In the shadow of the old broken thing, the one at 17.14 seemed like a lagging bullfighting hour. From a subway grille a hot air rage arose and a girl who wore the stellar knotted at the waist made others laugh letting her get up like Marilyn . What a nationalist erotic fantasy: the stele as a skirt with a tremendous cut in the hip of the tango. Sometimes some Harley flagged the independence motards that had left in caravan of Vic. Then, with the influx of people, it was impossible for them to circulate and they let their motorcycles lying on the goat's leg be absorbed by the crowd. It is curious how, on one side and the other of the Ebro, epic crews of the Bikers For Trump emerge every year thundering Washington in the Rolling Thunder and escorting the funeral processions of soldiers killed in combat on the highways that return home . As periscopes, castellets also emerged from the crowd.

If the leaders fail you, we will not

Mafalda said that the bad thing about wearing always stuck ears is that you end up hearing what others are talking about. During the quick, snack and third lunches, in the bars near the square, the militants talked about their things and some were revealing of a mentality. For example, and to support the belief that the insecurity of Barcelona is a conspiracy invention of the perfidious State, all exchanged accounts of the heinous naval experiences they went through the only time they dared to step on Madrid, a city «much more insecure than Barcelona ». Mordor! And that which brew pawns like Rufián makes them rock idols.

The public attending the demonstration retained the sociological and generational mainstreaming seen other years. It was usual to observe the three links of the same family. It was a mass demonstration, perhaps somewhat more tired than in other years. There were two types of absence: that of those who failed to maintain vindictive tension for so many years and that of the most forceful, already impatient, who are fed up with scenery and globes and ask to experiment with another type of more brave solution. This relative militant laziness was noted because the ANC's megaphony, very crushing, did not stop issuing the slogan that the ruling of the Supreme Court will be the catalyst that will return to the cause all its fury until reaching “ aquest any yes ”, the objective of independence, as well as international recognition. From the public address of the ANC, from which Puigdemont's voice came out as a psychophony, it was also possible to infer an idea that alludes to the internal scolding of the independence bloc. "If the leaders fail you," said the voice, "we will not." He also referred to the will of the people in its purest form, able to face the manifest destiny of independence without committing to the intermediation of professional politicians whose lack of courage in the rupturist order is balanced with compassion for the imprisoned martyrs or exiled

Let's see what shirt they wear next year, which will be, as in this edition, that of the last Diada as Spaniards forced to be. If Barcelona also cultivated a fatalism of "This year" until Cruyff rescued it, it would be said that independence, lost confidence in its representatives, is only waiting for a providential being. Who can be surprised if they ask Messi to go to the Diada.

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