The baraka
According to the dictionary of the RAE, the term Baraka has two main meanings; divine protection enjoyed by jerifes or marabouts, of more common or frequent use in Morocco, and the other, as a synonym of fortune or favorable luck, which has been a key element in the subsistence of the tricksters and those who live by deceiving others.
But, its use is not only for the previous ones, both the one and the other -although with greater profusion the second one- are being considered as inherent qualities and intimately linked to the greater or lesser success and political and personal future of Pedro Sanchez, at the time president of the government of Spain for the third time, and it is vox populi that he is not exempt or is so thanks to a good proportion of positive baraka.
A character known to all, who has not been and still is not exempt from strong controversies and feats of great risk in the field of politics, as well as in the personal; controversies and attitudes in which, often, the all or nothing is at stake and, thanks to his baraka and the group of squires with which he usually surrounds himself until he burns them, he has known and been able to circumvent in a "solvent way" and not only thanks to his crazy swagger with which he moves in all spheres, to the golden beak or to the scornful way of speaking that he possesses and promotes when he believes he is solid; but rather, to the pressing need to hold on to his position and because the degradation and loss of values in his personality, morality and sense of State -which he has been suffering and transmuting steadily and progressively in very few years- have served him for profound or total "changes of opinion" between what he announced with great fanfare nothing ago, with what he now proclaims and defends with all his strength and no or very false false dignity.
Someone who -in a narcissistic way, unparalleled arrogant and egocentric to the extreme, despises and tramples on everything and everyone, including his own if necessary- imposes his will based on the many and varied subsidies at the expense of indebting the State and for having flooded with followers without fissures -in favorable times- each and every one of the institutions of the different powers of the State, except for the Head of State and the occasional high court, although it has a firm grip, in a majority, shameful and even hilarious way, on the highest of them all, starting with its president, famous for the "dust in his robes" when he was Attorney General of the State in the time of the illustrious Zapatero.
A president who uses, puts and removes the ministers of the largest cabinet in the history of Spain like someone who uses tissues to shake off the snot while under the effects of a bad cold. And, moreover, he does it when they are no longer useful as firewalls or to pay him with more than enough money -even though they are not useful for the appointed position- for the services rendered to his cause, after having "burned" them in it, even if it was not for the good of the Spanish people and the prestige of Spain, but in his tireless quest for his own benefits.
A personage, who has come in recent times to literally kneel before the worst enemies of Spain (philo-terrorists, communists and separatists or independentists some of them, embraced by Putin) and drool their shoes without any decorum, no dissimulation or apparent dignity, as long as the very expensive vote of these serve him to stay at all costs in the Moncloa.
But, as with anyone who overuses or abuses disproportionately his own baraka, one day, it changes direction and becomes contrary. There are so many people who have been repeatedly deceived, so many affronts to all national and foreign institutions, so many unfulfilled promises, so many commitments made and then abandoned at the bottom of many ministerial drawers, that he is deceiving fewer and fewer people and these people, the courts and some of the institutions themselves are turning their backs on him and he begins to suffer great and shameful setbacks in his intentions.
These setbacks, however, do not make him give up his intentions. On the contrary, he strives to find ways to turn the tables or to present new paths or alternatives that lead him to the same destination in a different way, highlighting even more his spurious intentions and the rottenness of his thoughts.
He has been one of the greatest plotters of lies and deceit in Spain and in the EU, someone who has promised, asked and then trampled on more wills and great projects and who has squandered huge amounts of community money in "works and projects" that nobody knows about or have already been forgotten, which have been sterile since their birth and that, most of them, have only served to fill the pockets of his many interested friends, relatives or followers that he tirelessly weaves in his environment for the economic or political advantages acquired under his mandate, tutelage or advice, and therefore, these as camicaces do not hesitate to follow him, defend him and fight so that, no matter what, he remains in office.
In his narcissistic and egocentric career he has led his political party, the PSOE, to the lowest levels of territorial power in history. He only governs in three autonomous communities and in two of them, he does so thanks to the costly support received from exogenous forces that burden him even more and that, for this reason, I believe that they produce more harm than good.
When one sets up one's own world based on personal luck and in the firm belief that one can go on fooling everyone for a long time, one is totally wrong. Sooner or later one or both of the above precepts will fail. It is not possible to pretend to continue in the seat of power by constantly announcing subsidies for any "fire that arises" or touting that "Spain is going like a motorcycle" -slogan similar to the many used by his master ZP- and based on the forced mirage that "we are growing" more than the others in the EU, because we really come from much lower down.
To our misfortune and reality is that we are the worst country or we are in the tail end of the pack of real unemployment and not impostado or hidden; we suffer an enormous precariousness in youth work; the great deficiencies or shortcomings we have in vocational training; the high and serious level of school failure; the high number of families with all its members unemployed; the deficiencies in the education of our young people; the high debt impossible to face or pay in one or two generations; the exorbitant deficit; the lousy balance of trade; the fact that the Spanish are those who have lost the most income and those who have suffered the most tax increases since 2019 among the large economies; that the countryside is defenseless against external demands and is on a war footing along with road transport; that we enjoy with impunity a very high political and economic corruption and maintain an immeasurable black labor that does not contribute and defrauds at the expense of others; as well as, our dwindling and already too squalid international prestige.
The baraka has its minimum times, forms and degree of application, but also maximums that cannot and should not be stretched or exceeded. It is not a scientific term nor does it have any economic basis, it is only used and extended as much as possible by the cheaters and those incorrigible and incompetent people who only know how to live by deceit and bought dependence. Those who only think of themselves, are those who, without a doubt, sooner or later, end up in ruin, but unfortunately in doing so, they do not fall alone, they drag to the same well all and all those around them and above all, those who one day, consciously or unconsciously trusted them and did not know or could not discover their bad arts or praxis, with enough time to withdraw a support that really and definitely, only brings bread for today, but hunger, much hunger, for tomorrow.