In addition to many deaths, much suffering, much destruction and an avalanche of lies and political mud, the DANA (acronym for Isolated Depression at High Levels, which many media outlets have already lexicalized and converted into Dana) introduced into common language a new acronym for a public organization: CECOPI. An acronym transformed into an acronym for Integrated Operational Coordination Center, the Valencian CECOPI to which Carlos Mazón arrived so late on the day in question turned out to be a lie in itself. Coordination, very little; operability, none; the integration of different administrations is rare. It reminds me of Villanueva de las Carretas, the town of Burgos that was once called “the town of three lies” because it was neither a town nor new and it had no carts.
THE DANA either Dana left a lot of mud on the first and second direction of the Dictionary academies (“1. m. Mass which results from the mixture of earth and water.” “2. m. Mud which forms in the streets when it rains”) and much more from the fifth sense: “5 . mm Dishonor, moral degradation. Crawl in the mud“.
As the numerous irregularities, culpable absences, negligence and errors of the autonomous Valencian government, in the hands of the PP, become known, this party, the PP, denounces more false culprits in other administrations governed by the PSOE and he threw more mud, more mud, more mud and even thicker epithets at his political rivals.
It will be a difficult quagmire to clean up. After losing the war of facts, the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo has unleashed the war on narrative, the desperate search for what Donald Trump’s first president’s team, eight years ago, called “alternative facts » ; that is, blatant lies in an attempt to cover up the real facts.
See the spot in another’s eye and not see the beam in your own Gospel by Matthew. Nearly two thousand years have passed, and the political and media – and Christian – right continues without applying the parable. Is there any straw, or even medium-sized wood, in the eyes of the central government? A few. Are there any problems in the eyes of the Valencian government? A lot.
More than a hundred years ago, in 1921, Charles Prestwich Scott, politician and journalist, former Liberal MP and editor and then owner of the British newspaper Tutorpublished an article in which he formulated a sacred principle for journalists and many politicians: “Opinions are free, but facts are sacred.”
For some time now, especially since Trump first became president of the United States, eight years ago, because certain opinions are free and facts are also free, alternative, manipulable.
Stimulated, among other examples, by this Trump and by the new Trump, returned to power thanks to conscious and planned disinformation, the Feijóo PP acts with the conviction that if history wins – that of DANA or that of all another problem, the conflict or controversy he is involved in – he will win the elections and return to power. Whatever the truth, whatever the irregularities, careless absences, negligence or errors.
