Misdirected Anger
Manners are manners. You do not punch someone in the face simply because you disagree with him. Things are not done that way. It merely shows the puncher to be a person with low self-control and not enough intelligence to battle the opponent in a logical, civilized fashion. Violence will not convince someone of the error of their ways. That said, however, many people applauded the teenager last night who punched Prime Minister Rajoy in an evening electoral walk through Pontevedra. Have people lost their sanity? No, people are angry. People are angry with all the cutbacks during these past four years. They are angry with the changes in labor laws that have left them with practically slave-wage jobs with which they cannot feed their families. With changes in the education laws that only serve to further lower the educational level of our children and make it more difficult for working class students to access higher education. With changes in the universal health laws that oblige...