“What am I accused of?” asks the protagonist of The Trial. “Mr. K, you don’t mean to say you are innocent?” they answer him. We still don’t know what Pedro Sánchez is guilty of and perhaps we never will, when after a few years he gets out of prison, and I don’t know who will be free to go look for him, maybe Salvador Illa, in an electric car made in Singapore. He will have served his sentence, his wife, everyone. Excessive, hyperbolic punishments, penalties imposed on intentions, purposes, and projects, as well as punishable actions and corruptions, although subjected to the usual judicial doping.
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When I was a kid, there was a boy who, if he saw me during recess, would beat me up. Over and over. For no reason. One day I asked him why he did it. “Because I can,” he answered me. What is happening – in the world, in our country – the dismantling of rights and rules of conduct and action, the activation – electrified and patriotic – of frameworks in which the other is a zombie – terrorist, immigrant, activist – to be taken down, they are doing it because they can. They can and they no longer want to wait. If they have their tough guy all over the world, we want ours. We are impatient. We have warned you too many times, Mr. K. Now it’s too late.
The far right is a violent way to access power: it does it because it can
Do you remember when we didn’t understand how Hitler couldn’t be stopped from coming to power through democratic means? Or how the Spanish Republic couldn’t be defended? How nothing was done about the pogroms in Russia and East Germany? Now we understand it better, though that is not an answer. They can, they do it, and we don’t know how to stop them. Then and now. We are dazzled by the headlights in the middle of the road and don’t know how we got here, but the truth is that truck is going to hit us and we keep arguing, thinking, meeting, and supporting Pereira.
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The far right is a violent way to access power. It’s as simple as that. It does it because it can and while it can. That’s why, when it explains itself, it does so poorly and hurriedly because even its voters get bored with the talking points. They want the consequences now, as soon as possible. Although later they will say they didn’t know, they didn’t expect it, they never would have thought that. But this is simple too. If you vote for them, you make what will happen happen. Or do you mean to say, Mr. K., that you will be innocent?
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