All those who stayed with Disney’s Bambi cannot believe what is happening with Zapatero. In that story, we saw how a mother gave birth to a fawn with friendly eyebrows, destined to assume, once he had antlers, the role of the Great Prince of the Forest (Felipe González), whose main function is to protect the social achievements from the hunters of the right-wing media. Bambi befriends a rabbit named Thumper (¿Joan Clos?) who teaches him to walk and talk, a wise owl (¿Pérez Rubalcaba?) and a skunk named Flower (¿Bono?).
At that time, Zapatero was a curious and honest guy, who wanted to understand what was happening around him according to his progressive ideology. Very attached to his mother, she always warned him about the dangers of the right, but Bambi is a naive idealist. Under Flower’s influence, the Forest was one of the first countries to approve same-sex marriage, although surely Flower was not behind the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Those of us who are not so surprised are the ones who saw ‘Bambi: The Revenge’
A hunter kills Bambi’s mother. That broke the hearts of all the children of a generation, like the 88 pages of Rufián’s Auto. Over time, Bambi becomes a stag, rules the forest, mates with a doe named Faline, and they have twin daughters who, years later, will visit the Obamas, but that is another (gothic) story.
But those of us who are not so surprised by what happened are the B-movie fans who saw Bambi: The Revenge, where the dark side of that deer is already shown. Here, not only is the mother murdered, but Faline is run over by a truck carrying toxic corruptions and airline bailouts. Contact with all this turns Bambi into a voracious, murderous, and vengeful being, determined to collect every commission he can get. Although in this fiction, the Zapatero of the rallies is not as cruel as in the movie, we were warned that perhaps the Bambi from Valladolid was not as good as he seemed.
Of course, the presumption of innocence, the judges and the police, the hunting of PSOE animals exist, but it is also true that the forest is burning, voters are fleeing, the skunks stink, and one only hopes that the UCO does not investigate Jordi Hurtado.
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