Again, I found motivation to write something from the sorry state that Spain is showing.
This Sunday there will be elections in most towns and cities of Spain, and also in plenty of regions. Catalunya is not one of them and will have elections later on, on September, but Barcelona will vote this week.
The polls around Spain show weird results. New parties have appeared and have gained an incredible amount of support in a very short time. On one side we have Podemos, CUP, and other parties and organizations from the left that are trying to remove the traditional parties from power to improve life conditions and increase social policies. Most of these parties are getting support from people that used to vote PSOE, but since PSOE has done really stupid things that have situated its central power in the center-right rather than the left, several of those voters have abandoned PSOE as an option. This is understandable: If you support the left, currently in plenty of regions PSOE does not represent the ideas from the left, and is involved in several important corruption cases. There may be regions where PSOE is still defending the right ideas, but central POSE and lots of other regions are corrupted by having had the power for too long, and own too much to the banks and big companies to really work for the people.
What does not stop surprising me is still the massive support that PP has. Half its leaders are being judged or already condemned for corruption. Where they go corruption appears around them constantly. They have openly said they had a secret accountability book, even if legal (or not really illegal but unclear). They have failed to comply with all their program. They have increased taxes for the big majority of the population. They have modified laws that have reduced salaries, and new jobs are mostly temporary contracts. And even after all that and more, still people supports them in embarrassing numbers.
And what is even worse, the people that have stopped supporting them apparently have decided to vote Ciudadanos.
Ciudadanos is a new Spanish party, but before it became nation-wide it was a Catalan party (Ciutadans) for a long time. In Catalunya, they defined themselves as anti-catalanist, basically defending the idea that there are more important things to worry right now than catalanism, independence and defending Catalan language. This is a perfectly valid posture, but they followed it by centering all their program in anti-catalan proposals: instead of really focusing in other topics (like unemployment, or corruption), they centered all their campaign in being against Catalan language and Catalan independence…Which basically is still wasting time and not trying to do anything for all these things that they said were more important than catalanism (like unemployment, or corruption).
They also tried to say they were not a party from the right, and several times skipped talking about it or claiming they were center-left, or center. However, they sounded suspiciously similar than PP, and several of their members were ex-PP, or ex-PSOE with ideas from the right. I always considered them from the right, but they were ambiguous about it.
After the initial success of Podemos, Ciudadanos decided to go national, and presented candidates all around Spain. They presented themselves as another new party, an alternative to the corrupt old parties. And then they declared themselves as a right-center party, and basically took as candidates politicians mostly from PP but also some from PSOE or IU, that had not won before any important position and took this as their chance to enter a parliament and get paid for life.
They have won quite a lot of support. And I keep realizing there's no hope for Spain as long as 25%-33% are raging fascist or mentally disabled. Even if they're not truly aware, that's what they are. PP has lost lots of votes, but most of those votes have gone to Ciudadanos, which is made by the same people with the same ideas.
I will make a prediction: during these elections, PP and Ciudadanos will pact in lots of regions and cities to rule together. Because there's an embarrasing number of mentally handicapped that keep voting PP. But the rest of the mentally handicapped that had voted PP will go ahead and vote for PP2, Ciudadanos. You can see it in Valencia or Madrid. According to the polls, the loses of PP are gains for Ciudadanos, almost to the decimal in estimation of vote.
The only solution is to have enough parties from the left to win over these two parties (and also to win over PSOE in some regions where PSOE is not doing very different things than PP).
I will just finish saying that Catalunya's situation is more complex, because there's the independence factor as well...but, to not avoid the chance to offend some more people, I will say this: This Spanish mental handicap that seems so common in the population also affects Catalunya, to all the people that believe independence is more important that the state of the country when it becomes independent. To explain it to these same people with cognitive problems: CIU governing an independent Catalunya is not very different than PP governing Spain, and one of the the only differences is the language and culture that will be promoted.
If you don't see a problem with that, well....as I said, cognitive problems.
This Sunday there will be elections in most towns and cities of Spain, and also in plenty of regions. Catalunya is not one of them and will have elections later on, on September, but Barcelona will vote this week.
The polls around Spain show weird results. New parties have appeared and have gained an incredible amount of support in a very short time. On one side we have Podemos, CUP, and other parties and organizations from the left that are trying to remove the traditional parties from power to improve life conditions and increase social policies. Most of these parties are getting support from people that used to vote PSOE, but since PSOE has done really stupid things that have situated its central power in the center-right rather than the left, several of those voters have abandoned PSOE as an option. This is understandable: If you support the left, currently in plenty of regions PSOE does not represent the ideas from the left, and is involved in several important corruption cases. There may be regions where PSOE is still defending the right ideas, but central POSE and lots of other regions are corrupted by having had the power for too long, and own too much to the banks and big companies to really work for the people.
What does not stop surprising me is still the massive support that PP has. Half its leaders are being judged or already condemned for corruption. Where they go corruption appears around them constantly. They have openly said they had a secret accountability book, even if legal (or not really illegal but unclear). They have failed to comply with all their program. They have increased taxes for the big majority of the population. They have modified laws that have reduced salaries, and new jobs are mostly temporary contracts. And even after all that and more, still people supports them in embarrassing numbers.
And what is even worse, the people that have stopped supporting them apparently have decided to vote Ciudadanos.
Ciudadanos is a new Spanish party, but before it became nation-wide it was a Catalan party (Ciutadans) for a long time. In Catalunya, they defined themselves as anti-catalanist, basically defending the idea that there are more important things to worry right now than catalanism, independence and defending Catalan language. This is a perfectly valid posture, but they followed it by centering all their program in anti-catalan proposals: instead of really focusing in other topics (like unemployment, or corruption), they centered all their campaign in being against Catalan language and Catalan independence…Which basically is still wasting time and not trying to do anything for all these things that they said were more important than catalanism (like unemployment, or corruption).
They also tried to say they were not a party from the right, and several times skipped talking about it or claiming they were center-left, or center. However, they sounded suspiciously similar than PP, and several of their members were ex-PP, or ex-PSOE with ideas from the right. I always considered them from the right, but they were ambiguous about it.
After the initial success of Podemos, Ciudadanos decided to go national, and presented candidates all around Spain. They presented themselves as another new party, an alternative to the corrupt old parties. And then they declared themselves as a right-center party, and basically took as candidates politicians mostly from PP but also some from PSOE or IU, that had not won before any important position and took this as their chance to enter a parliament and get paid for life.
They have won quite a lot of support. And I keep realizing there's no hope for Spain as long as 25%-33% are raging fascist or mentally disabled. Even if they're not truly aware, that's what they are. PP has lost lots of votes, but most of those votes have gone to Ciudadanos, which is made by the same people with the same ideas.
I will make a prediction: during these elections, PP and Ciudadanos will pact in lots of regions and cities to rule together. Because there's an embarrasing number of mentally handicapped that keep voting PP. But the rest of the mentally handicapped that had voted PP will go ahead and vote for PP2, Ciudadanos. You can see it in Valencia or Madrid. According to the polls, the loses of PP are gains for Ciudadanos, almost to the decimal in estimation of vote.
The only solution is to have enough parties from the left to win over these two parties (and also to win over PSOE in some regions where PSOE is not doing very different things than PP).
I will just finish saying that Catalunya's situation is more complex, because there's the independence factor as well...but, to not avoid the chance to offend some more people, I will say this: This Spanish mental handicap that seems so common in the population also affects Catalunya, to all the people that believe independence is more important that the state of the country when it becomes independent. To explain it to these same people with cognitive problems: CIU governing an independent Catalunya is not very different than PP governing Spain, and one of the the only differences is the language and culture that will be promoted.
If you don't see a problem with that, well....as I said, cognitive problems.
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