Update on Catalonia: people are voting. The Catalonian police decided not to intervene, and apparently there will be legal consequences for that. The Spanish police are intervening, and the result is that people are getting hurt (38 so far, according to media reports). At some polling places, young people are forming human chains outside the doors so older voters won’t be disturbed. Again, I cannot stress enough how unsettling and plain terrifying this is. It’s possible we all got lulled into a fake sense of security way too soon.
