It is clear we are in the age of dictatorial democracies and constitutional fundamentalism. Also, it is ironic in the extreme that a hereditary monarch, who is king because a dictator appointed his father to be king, lectures the world about democracy while his government's thugs are violently assaulting people for the heinous crime of voting in a referendum. There is much that is terribly wrong here. Not just Spain, but Europe itself is looking very bad. Neither Spain nor Europe will come out of this looking good.