Monday, 25 December 2017

JUST A THOUGHT, ON CATALAN'S ELECTION RESULTS - PUIGDEMONT SHOULD NOT START CELEBRATING! THE END..!






For those who cannot imagine or feel what it would be like. They only have to look to the Brexification of United Kingdom. 

Where at least 48 per cent of the electorate is confronted by just such a traumatic wrench. 

With having to be forcefully separated from key aspects of their identity, of how they perceive of themselves and how others perceive of them. 

With having to sacrificing that most prized, if not almost sacred possession, legitimate citizens of their country, Spain.



To being forced to cease to be a part of the bigger whole, and to revert back to being an isolate. 

In a world in which literally millions of people are displaced and wondering the world seeking to be made citizens of this and that country, that is a massive sacrifice.

And how ironic is it, that it is nearly the same percentage of the voting electorate in Catalunya, who are apparently supporting the region becoming independent. As those who are also supporting the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union?

All of which is only part of why Puigdemont and his colleagues are mistaken, in seeing the results of the election as the 'victory' they imagine it to be. 



To have the greatest level of legitimacy, moral, political and 'democratic', Catalan should not become an independent State. 

Unless it is a course of action which is voted on by atleast 80 per cent of the electorate, and is voted for by at least 70 per cent of them.

Nothing less would do, or should be settled for. When the act of a region seceding from the country of which it is a part, 
and depriving, those of its inhabitants who do not want to become independent, of their 'birthright.' 

Their citizenship of the country they have become a part of, and which has become an integral part of them. 

Which is such a profound, costly and irreversible act, which should not ever be decided by the greatest percentage of the electorate.



It is a terrible situation when politicians and political activists reduce something of this magnitude to one of simply populist and/or nationalistic politics. 

The better future lies in nations and people becoming and remaining united, and in them devolving back into their constituent region. 

In this respect, Carles Puigdemonts and the independistas all over the world, are 'yesterdays' people, advocating the divisive politics of the past. 







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