Second, even though the Iberian peninsula is fairly homogeneous, I can't help but notice a "genetic difference" sense of feeling that's at play and/or played. I've stumbled upon maps while searching something entirely different (i.e. some references about medieval Europe in the book "In Search of Zarathustra") and noticed a "border" crossed over not necessarily Barcelona, but the upper region in Girona and along the Pyrenees. This is where the heresies reached, i.e. Cathars, Bogomils, etc. I work in this region and sometimes I think and joke to myself that the pro-independence movement is genetically inherited. It was with their grandpas, parents and it will be with their descendants. I see people in this region more similar to people up the Spanish border than to any other culture that I've ever met in Spain. I've learned to appreciate both Spain's and Catalonian's positive traits and it's heart-breaking to see the divide. Images such as the Catalonian flag along the Spanish flag in historical scenes such as the glimpse of one which I caught when I saw at a Queen Live concert in the 80s will remain like a fond memory.
It is true that there is a lot of difference between Girona and Lleida compared to Tarragona and Barcelona. Of the first two come the majority of the most staunch separatists, in the other two provinces the majority are more unionists -that is why the formation of that ironic platform called
Tabarnia-. I don't think there are racial differences between the Iberians, but the differences in this case are geographical. Also among the Basques (and Galicians to a lesser extent) the more fanatics of the regional nationalist causes come from isolated mountain villages. But, even if it were true the racial case, it is a supremacist business that despises the poor who come from other Spanish regions as "
charnegos." The same ideological system of ETA: disguised as the left, they are completely sectarian of the right and want benefits for themselves by destroying all kinds of cooperation between regions, destroying national workers unions, etc. If they really were of left wing and had studied the authors they claim to know, they would know that Marx said there is no right to self-determination in any nation in Western Europe. That is an obvious contradiction, and there are many others. But it seems that in the fight for power, anything goes.
Again, too much conspiracy thinking here IMO. If Spain become federalized, it will because people want it, not because anyone 'forced' it on them. Personally, I seriously doubt that Spain will become federalized because, as far as I can tell, the large majority of people do NOT want it.
I believe that the idea of European federalism, or the Europe of the regions (which has its similarities to a Nazi project), is something that is desired by the elites, but whose realization is not easy. The Catalan theme will continue to be insisted, not for any love of Catalonia and hatred of the Spaniards, but because Spain in these times is a nation with the most weakened state and can be the initial kick of a new great continental state with Brussels as the capital of many small regions without any power.
In any case, the signal for such changes will come with the modification of the Spanish constitution, the only legal way for Catalonia to become another new state. And to achieve this, elites can generate fear of a new civil war. This is nothing new, when the people accepted the 1978 constitution -agreed between francoists and the left, and written up in SECRET-, Santiago Carrillo (of the PCE) spoke of "noise of sabers," that if the new consensus of political oligarchs was not accepted, there could be another coup d'etat. It was all a lie. It is very easy to deceive the people, and more to the Spanish people, who lives with the open wounds of the civil war. The case of separatisms and unionists is nothing more than the continuation of the civil war of 80 years ago through other masks.
Changing the constitution and legalizing a referendum is, beyond the result, the death of Spain as a nation-state, because the nation will no longer be considered as what it is, a historical fact, created by wars, geography, marriages to unite kingdoms and crowns, etc., And will become a subjective project: voting for nationality as a project, as something voluntary, is a triumph for psychopaths and their vision of the world, "create the reality." A new triumph of psychopaths in international law. They already do this at other levels, modifying through the positive law issues of gender, minority rights, etc. But getting the nation-states themselves to be something "decidable" will be a big step for them. If they succeed in Spain, they will continue for the rest of Europe and the world. That is why if in a future, if the process to modify the Spanish constitution is opened, the Spaniards must show that they are alive and fight against their entire state political class. And they should have help from other peoples in that fight.
Yes the media are biased pretty much all the time. The question then is "what way are they biased?". The difference in media coverage between the Yellow Vest movement and the Independence movement is telling. As I wrote in a previous post:
Yes, The Yellow Vests movement is a French national movement and the separatists movement is a fragmentary movement of a region. This could be seen well in the "strike" of Barcelona the other day: the majority were students, anti-fascists and anarchists. Almost nothing of workers - who continued with their normal workday-. The only working class there were the police, having to prevent the excesses of the postmodern revolutionaries.
To the antifa you can apply a quote said by Lacan in 1968 - in several ways, the young people of May '68 are the grandparents of the current "rebels"-. Lacan said: "What you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one."
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