El proceso español

Catalan nationalism had been working tirelessly for decades to separate Catalonia from the rest of Spain. But that process accelerated between 2012 and 2017, the years of the procés. Without a social majority, without any international support and without the protection of legality, it was clear that the project was doomed to failure. Even so, the pro-independence leaders dragged the population into instability, destroying key sectors of the economy and paralyzing real political activity. Years later, we find that the rest of Spain has imported many of the features of the process: the omnipresence of intellectuals and socialists who only seek to polarize, a government incapable of managing that hides its ineptitude by accusing rivals of imaginary behaviors or the contempt for economic management and prosperity policies. A good part of the elites seem to have taken up this strategy, despite the obvious damage it caused in Catalonia. And he seems to have done it without thinking about the very serious, and perhaps irreversible, damage to institutions, coexistence and harmony.