The rumors have put into the background the possible criminal responsibility in the greatest tragedy of the century in Valencia. Between gossip and crime, public opinion has chosen gossip. Because let’s make no mistake, for a prototypical corrupt cunning person to say that the president asked him for a photo to thank him for what he does is a bad rumor that only those who want us to stop watching Valencia can believe.
The ability to set the agenda is one of the most important elements of politics, a skill with which elections are won and governments overthrown. This political courage, aided by the media smugness of allies, is what makes the difference between staying in power or abandoning it. Unfortunately for the progressive government, it is this ability of the right that will ultimately defeat it because it is incapable of setting an agenda with the questions that interest it and of being irrevocably attentive to the questions that harm it the most.