Sánchez and the ‘Swedish theory of love’

With the fall of Paco Salazar, famous for being the fastest flyer in Moncloa, Pedro Sánchez loses more than just a good replacement part, loses his ideal man for the necessary relief after the other fall from grace due to the alleged corruption of his two former protégés: Ábalos and Cerdán. The truth is that there are already many falls that affect the president, this is on the way to being a collapse or a collapse, more than a stumble of his main advisors and advisors, without forgetting a Koldo belittled and ignored by the boss himself.

The President of the Government now sells us the new version that he hardly knew those affected – or rather, those affected – and that he only had a slight professional knowledge of them. Come on, some real strangers to the leader of the PSOE. Something credible if it weren’t for the fact that the Peugeot and its political past give them away, They traveled together across half of Spain refining and inflating the ballot boxes for the socialist primary elections. Then, power raised them and they got together to hit balls left and right, with alleged corruption as the scene of their adventures.

Some want to sell us that Paco Salazar is also largely unknown to the president, although he worked in the Semillas de Moncloa Building (headquarters of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government) and has been a key man for years for Sánchez, as the main demographic advisor and as a cheerful cheerleader of the president’s bitter moments. Now, instead of sending him to eternal exile, they allowed Salazar to set up an office outside the walls so that he could continue scrutinizing the interests of the “house”, Moncloa, and collecting money from outside. Thank goodness that some journalist realized the outrage and stopped this new political abuse.

But Pedro Sánchez, like the three monkeys, knew nothing, saw nothing, heard nothing. A President of the Government who controls everything, who does not miss a fly or a thread, and suddenly everything ugly that bubbles around him becomes something invisible. Strange paradox. It won’t be that the president is hiding the truth from us. If you have done it on other occasions, why not do it now. Their divorce with the true facts is legendary. What seems clear is that so much ignorance around him is not typical for a man who presumes to be smart through life.

Sánchez’s strategy of distancing and distancing himself from his bad apples is similar to the famous “swedish theory of love”whose philosophy proposes that all authentic human relationships, including love, must be based on the absolute and fundamental independence between people, a resounding if I have seen you I do not remember, as long as your presence does not interest me or benefit me. In Spain we call it in a less sophisticated way: ‘play swedish‘, a sneaky way of pretending that you don’t understand something or of ignoring a situation to avoid responsibility.

The “swedish theory of love“is the cold and neurotic way of staying safe without carrying the responsibility of others; not only does it respond to a rescue every man for himself and fool last, it also carries other deeper and less desired consequences. For example, constantly lying causes a great distrust in citizens and it is difficult to change that terrible image. Without forgetting, the isolation and loneliness that entails, and that leads to an irremediable existential void.

However, for the President of the Executive, staying alone because others fear you and cannot stand your contempt, rather than an undesirable act maybe be a bearable punishment. In short, it can be an opportunity to meet with the person you admire and love the most, the most interesting, the most attractive, the most wonderful you have ever met and whom you want to care for above all others.

Coincidentally, the initials of this special person are PS, but they are not those of Paco Salazar, but those of Pedro Sánchez himself, a superior being who loves himself so much and controls everything except his most direct collaborators, who have become sneaky and criminal, presumably, without the main boss being able to realize anything. As the Count of Romanones would say: “Damn, what a troop!”.