Again, always punctual and faithful to the appointment of nostalgia, arrives April 14. Again, right and left memorials. Cry for what might have been but was not, that a general regime coup took away, let every year anchored in nostalgia, seized by pain-numbing the senses and let history take its course, whatever. The important thing is to remember live in the past and think how nice it was that almost no one knew and that, accordingly, increasingly, is somewhat idealized and whose sins because no one will speak of the dead only speaks well.
Remove the flags in the street, coloquémonos all behind and in civic procession, sing the familiar litany: long live the Republic, tomorrow will be Republican Spain. Spend the Day, forget the pomp and return to daily routine. Return next year with another April 14 and return to our party.
Who remembers the republican values? citizenship, freedom, equality, fraternity (christ that sounds good in French: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité), respect for legality, the rule of law, separation of powers and such other trifles as old-fashioned Republican are things of the eighteenth century and three centuries are too many for a company growing rapidly, and where old things are growing rapidly.
seems strange that so fervently Republican forms not accompanied by a bit, no need too, for the bottom and stop navel-gazing that republicanism is not native but foreign invention and in this Spain our caught more form than substance.
It is strange that those who did so little at the time by that republic now set themselves up as champions longed for his return.
It is strange that among those who kept shouting, health and republic (or know what they say or whether it was really something even beyond the slogan R) are members of the party that now governs us but do not just put some things in place, the Catholic Church, and thus all others, where they played: in the private sphere and to all intents and purposes, secular school, period, respect for the dignity of the person especially in the last time .....
Less hype and more respect for minorities, especially those who choose a different sexual preference, really, not the small mouth, not because they look good or take, not forgetting that does not yet too long regarded this issue as a strange disease deserves a good mental asylum.
More respect for human rights including those who are not like us, immigrants from next door or across the seas to those who do not fully treated as equals because basically we are not convinced that they are the everything.
Ultimately less celebrate the past and look a bit into the future. More education in republican values. Become citizens and not subjects but maybe this is a question that few politicians are interested too much given to vassalage, and very little to grant citizenship rights. Citizens who do not call us if they can not believe that we really are and, if you really believe, let us exercise our rights as such. Not only kings subject the people to servitude, where individual freedom and you put obstacles to democracy, truth and not to the forms, they are contravening the rights of citizens.
is possible that if we make a society of citizens in which republican values, those that are inherent in the concept of citizenship, are present every day of the year and in all areas, the republic is more than a claim to a day a year like so many other things, the next day, are kept in the drawer waiting for the next celebration.
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