WHEN LEFT AND RIGHT SPEAK THE SAME
I have always associated ends meet with the idiomatic phrase to make (both) ends meet , meaning the attempt to balance income and expenses. Yesterday, however, listening to Karoline Leavitt, Press Secretary in Trump’s administration, I was reminded of Elma Sáiz Delgado, spokesperson minister of the current Spanish communist government. Ms Leavitt, a rightist who does not mince words, attacks the left as peddlers of lies, fake news, and unethical behaviour. Her Spanish counterpart, Ms Sáiz Delgado, a socio-communist, uses precisely the same epithets against the so-called fascist right: lies, fake news, mudslinging. The political right and the political left prove that ends meet : at one end the right, at the other the left, yet both employ the very same irate vocabulary. That can only happen because opposites meet. Politically, I am wary of both “right” and “left”: they are merely reflections of one another. Different cultures, different languages, but the same political mindset. ...