La España herida

We live in the era of confrontation and tension. Hate speeches, which make strategic use of lies, deteriorate democracies by feeding populist movements, more interested in pointing out culprits than in seeking solutions. It would seem that the constitutional consensus of the Transition is definitively broken and that we have returned to a past similar to that of the last centuries of our history, in which Spain was divided into two halves and each one had the other half to spare. The causes of the phenomenon must be traced to the breakdown of social cohesion, accelerated by the 2008 crisis, uncontrolled globalization and the pandemic. The economist and former politician Jordi Sevilla carefully studies the social gaps responsible for the breakdown of Spanish society and the rest of Western countries. The author groups them into 6 binomials: poor/rich; women Men; young/old; rural/urban; analog/digital; and turbocapitalism/retrocapitalism. Seville analyzes the situation of each of these gaps and proposes solutions that the most prominent experts in the field have indicated for each one. Only by healing the wounds in Spanish society, which polarize citizens and generate mistrust in institutions, can the civic unrest that threatens our democracies be resolved and thereby restore the social cohesion necessary for peaceful coexistence.