A circus with two rings

Since the world has recently lost more than a few of its traditional roles and even, in many cases, its head due to bulky and omnipresent laws - as could be the case of the exaggerated individual and collective awareness of animal protection - our lives have changed a lot and have affected many aspects of them, ways of life and behaviour. 

In the specific case of animals, its laws affect pet businesses, premises for their care or health care and even various types of entertainment in which the main attraction was provided by them, as was the case of the legendary and ever-present spectacle known as "the circus".  

In this case, and as has become common behaviour, the human being evolves and adapts quickly to events to change things in such a way that the main objective, the show and the fun are assured and, in a short time, we will have forgotten the absence of animals in the circus rings.  

Nowadays, in most civilised countries there are circuses based on different types of skill shows, jugglers, tightrope walkers with great personal risk or, most importantly, great comedians.  

The same thing happens in Spain, but not only in this world; our politicians, most of them sorcerer's apprentices, and very given to pantomime, deception and exaggeration, have found in this type of spectacle their "modus vivendi", the environment in which to hide, get fat and, if possible, get what they can and almost always, playing a buffoonish or out-of-context role at the slightest opportunity or if the script demands it. 

Thus, and due to the unexpected and not well suspected rise of corruption with the famous individual protection masks, which were very necessary, above all, at the beginning of the unfinished pandemic, someone decided to pull the blanket and denounce strange facts when surprised by unusual increases in business and profits by "companies", real ghosts due to their permanent inactivity and manifest lack of experience in the required branch of their business. 

Although initially the complaint did not prosper, because in Spain everything is covered up and because our inefficient justice system is slow to a fault, its incipient path to publicity finally set off certain alarms in the PSOE and the coalition government, which, as usual, immediately proceeded to put a patch on the case in the hope that it would cover up its seriousness. 

This botched job consisted of immediately dismissing the all-powerful Ábalos from all his party posts and turning him into an ordinary deputy because, despite all this and given how much he knew, two objectives had to be met: to provide him with a livelihood to maintain his busy personal and family life and to give him the necessary legal cover so that he would not be called to testify in any court of law or office in the hands of a judge who had to do justice in the face of such serious and reprehensible acts as these. At the same time, a scapegoat was sought, Koldo the all-purpose boy and Ábalos's unpayable assistant, on whom all the blame could be laid, leaving his boss and his superiors free of all suspicion, dust and chaff.   

The aforementioned ruse has not prospered as expected in the government and its party, which is why we have been dragging accusations and reproaches between the two majority parties for more than three months now, even in parliament. All kinds of dirty laundry have been brought out and even, as a first derivative of such a mess, the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, has come into play, with a series of shady dealings, suspicious or unworthy letters at least, and actions that reek of fetid influence peddling involving the President himself and his activity in the Councils of Ministers where certain opulent subsidies were approved for certain companies which, in turn or immediately afterwards, sponsored his wife's activities. 

As usual, Mr Sánchez has brought out one of his eternal jokers, the president of the Community of Madrid and her family or partner relationships, digging through the rubbish and the faeces and implicating in this - although there is no point of comparison or at first sight implications for Ayuso - high levels of the Treasury and the Public Prosecutor's Office. These facts join other hoaxes and falsehoods about the wife of the head of the opposition and other nonsense brought up by the president of the government himself or his economic vice-president, although they were soon proved to be completely false. 

Accusations and accusations which, as they have finally been brought to justice, will one day see the light of day in firm sentences and we will know, once again, who was right in wielding them or defending themselves against them. 

In any case, and returning to the subject that is the focus of this little piece of analysis, the trouble is already assured. Sánchez needs a lot of smoke and more noise of tension to hide his incapacity to govern in this bankrupt and useless legislature, his obscure activities in pursuit of the pernicious and unconstitutional Amnesty Law and the total cession to the fugitive Puigdemont and his clique of traitors to the homeland, who in no time and unless the EU saves us - after having changed the Penal Code and several other important laws, their criminal records, at their dictation - will be cleansed of any stain as if they had been washed with the strongest bleach.   

For all of the above to happen and for it to be really efficient and effective, a two-ring circus had to be set up in the Cortes and the Senate; These two bodies are dominated by one or the other, respectively, and will soon proceed to set up their respective commissions of enquiry, which, as we all know, in the absence of new additions to the long and more than incomplete list of those summoned to testify, nothing of any relevance will happen except the above, a lot of smoke and useless noise because in both cases, they have looked each other in the face before engaging in combat and seem to have agreed not to do serious and unsalvageable damage to each other's faces because, as it turns out, none of the main actors appear on any of the aforementioned lists, despite the fact that they have been starring in the headlines of newspapers and news programmes for the last few months. 

A spectacle typical of a circus where almost nothing is true and rather fictitious, and even, in this case, it could become indecent and unworthy of liberal democracies in which the search for the truth is pursued, whatever the cost and whoever falls, regardless of whether it affects the party in question or its greatest political adversary.   

If it is wrong for the government to mount its own circus to keep its own feet up and try to divert attention, I consider it much more serious for the opposition to enter the fray, to mount its own circus at the same time to add more noise to the atmosphere and, moreover, for the government not to go all out at a time when it is more than necessary.