Games played with fire

The great social anger caused by the great crisis of 2008-2014 in Spain (and many other places, of course) was clear. The failure of the political establishments that could not prevent the catastrophe—especially the effects of the bursting of the real estate bubble—repeated later when it came to the implementation of the so-called optimal treatments; with Invaluable help from BrusselsThe G20 and the OECD implemented austerity policies that caused so much suffering everywhere, destroyed the middle classes, and burned down the welfare state that needed to be rebuilt (it still exists in Greece and other countries around us, it hasn’t returned to the previous state). These reckless actions created waves of populism in Spain, where hitherto imperfect bipartisanship was maintained, and had deadly effects on the party system in other countries, such as France: the large conservative establishment was subordinated to the RPR and the Socialist Party virtually disappeared.

In our country, this phenomenon was accompanied by an epidemic of inappropriate political corruption, reaching unprecedented proportions. As in many European countries before, the pretext of financing the parties created a scandalous marketing, in which businessmen and public elites enriched themselves. The robbery was even more outrageous as, if possible, the national societies that were victims of the crisis were going through a very bitter pill in those years. The demoralization of the people was a scourge that was not limited to the economic level: the deviation of Interior Minister Fernández Díaz, who used the state security forces for fake party purposes, will go down in history as one of the greatest corruptions. our democracy. And the no-confidence motion that ousted Prime Minister Rajoy will also be remembered with shame as the courts point to the People’s Party’s criminal responsibility in numerous scandals. Some scandals that the head of state and his entourage did not spare. And this has also impacted the left with a resounding and important cause: the EREs of Andalusia.

The new government, which emerged from the left coalition, implemented social policies. benefited the majorityand this has probably made many love politics, but the representative system has yet to come out of the hole and occupy a stimulating, useful and truly constructive place. Parliament, which should be the place for thinking and intelligence, the forum where political formations should negotiate on behalf of their constituencies, has become a center of unbridled tension where insults rather than opinions are concerned. As if this were not enough, the stubbornness of the main opposition – the conservative – made it impossible to renew the General Assembly of the Judiciary. It is scandalous arrogance for a political entity to put its interests before constitutional authority.

To complete the picture, it is worth noting the demonstration of the second censorship motion programmed by VOX, which to the uninitiated will look like a circus session with colorful clowns. The election of a former holy man of historical communism by the far right as a theoretical candidate to head an ultra-government in a small theater whose outcome is foreshadowed seems a mockery to the audience, a ostentatious waste of humiliation. taxpayers Citizen’s anger is on the horizon and this step will end with a bang. Politicians who are absolutely unaware of the anger they are causing are playing with fire.