In the magnificent The Two Popes (2019), Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) reproaches the cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) who has compromised with the times and has strayed from the true path of faith. Bergoglio, later Pope Francisco, clarifies that it has changed because the world evolves. And to change is to adapt to life. The groups of the Spanish right, with their instructive dialectic – they teach us an invaluable repertoire of insults – have used the newspaper library to accuse the socialists of lying: in the past they rejected pardons for the independentists and now they do not. And that, according to Pablo Casado and company, is lying. As change — in appearance, appearance, ideology, tastes, interests, housing — goes with human nature, we are all liars about our past. It is even the most expensive right, which has spent the entire democracy rejecting advances such as the Constitution, divorce, abortion, homosexual marriage or, now, euthanasia, and then assume them in silence.
We all evolve and change our ideas according to what life throws at us. Felipe Gonzalez He maintained his refusal to join NATO for years until he was president. Mariano Rajoy He spent months promising that he would not raise taxes until he reached Moncloa. Jose Maria Aznar He was relentless with ETA until he called it the Basque Liberation Movement. The philosopher Antony Flew He went from being an uncompromising atheist to a convinced believer. Sean Connery claimed he would never be James Bond again, until he played the agent in Never say never. Even Vicente Valles Before he was a pure informant: now he thinks on TV like a man possessed.
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