X and politicians | Opinion

Social networks They are like drugs. Not because of their eventual addictive condition, but because there is no responsible use of them. At least, not in the case of the political class. The old Twitter, for example, generates hallucinations in which reality and fiction tend to mix. That they tell the first Podemos or, now, to Vox: both parties demonstrated a robust tweet hegemony that later did not know how to translate into votes.

They fit perfectly responsible and adult uses of social networks, but X has become a too powerful temptation that leads politicians to destroy their credibility or profile. There are cunning trained jesters, such as Donald Trump, who last week He published an image of his generated by the in which he appeared dressed as a Pope. But there are also reasonable people who have degraded their personal political capital due to the alienation of the tweet fury.

In the case of Spain, even if there are very specific exceptions, the final balance allows us to conclude that there are hardly any politicians who have been able to extract a positive performance of the use of social networks. Corporately, for example, the Popular Party was about to generate a diplomatic conflict with the Dominican Republic for His unacceptable abuse of AI to parody socialist corruption. They are not alone: Accounts of people with high responsibility in the PSOE communication had rehearsed similar strategies, and the new generations of the two great parties have consolidated political communication proposals that are not tolerable.

There are broncos politicians inside and outside the networks. To Rafael Hernando We have seen it adopt rude attitudes in X, and we have witnessed how Minister Puente has pointed to impeccable journalists. With the complicit silence, by the way, of much of the profession. But these two examples are not especially symptomatic, because both bridge and Hernando only exhibit the personality that also tend to tend to live.

More extravagant is the slippery slope by which people called to be more than the bronco ram of each bench. Last week, for example, we saw Pilar Alegría Push on X Miguel Tellado, One of the most Chabacan deputies in the PP. The tone aspired to be bold and provocative. The result, coming from an education minister, was simply blushing. The time may have come again to examine whether politicians of any sign are worth being in networks.