Menudo revuelo que hay montado con Democracia Real Ya (en adelante, DRY) y las manifestaciones y acampadas que se están haciendo por toda España como medida de presión a los políticos. Creo que nunca había visto nada así y desde luego es digno de mención, aunque estos movimientos sociales creo que conviene que sean matizados ya que, al igual que yo, estoy seguro de que hay mucha gente que solo se siente identificada en parte por dichas reivindicaciones.
Those who read the blog will know (from the photos) that last Sunday I went to the 15m demonstration. Despite not agreeing with many of the proposals that appear on the DRY page, considering them demagogic and sometimes ridiculous. For example, demanding the restoration of the subsidy of 426 euros for the long-term unemployed seems ridiculous to me, both because that money would not come from the trees, all Spaniards would have to pay it, and because, honestly, although things are screwed up, everyone has made their own decisions in life and I don’t feel like paying life to someone who has dropped out of ESO because they preferred to be smoking joints with their friends and now it’s worthless (I’m going to the extreme, I know that of course it’s not the case of all people).
Removing privileges from the political class would mean an exhaustive increase in corruption so obvious that it is ridiculous to consider it: if you earn 600 euros and they offer you 6,000 in exchange for voting for a law, it is easier for you to succumb than if you win 6,000. It is pure logic. What there should be is greater control of functions, powers and incompatibilities.
And so one after another all DRY’s proposals (which at the end of the day is what they are) can be torn down. I recommend this article in which all of them are analyzed point by point and with which I quite share their opinion.
But if I don’t agree with many of DRY’s proposals, why did I demonstrate the other day? Well, because I consider it necessary despite these disagreements.
To begin with, we are in a country with more than 5 million unemployed in which the population’s social benefits have been cut due to poor management by banks and savings banks, which speculated with one of the constitutional rights of Spaniards: housing. It seems inconceivable to me that after many banks received aid to move forward and did not fall into bankruptcy, annual balance sheets were presented with increases in profits and that they even continued to raise commissions and mortgage prices, precisely to pay that debt with the state that they themselves caused.
Obviously, politicians are largely to blame for all the general unrest there is, due to all the cases of corruption that are coming to light in all parts of Spain. And it seems that they do not care, turning a deaf ear to all the voices that demand that those accused in corruption cases be removed from political life (well thought out, this could be used as a political weapon, it is true) until their innocence is proven.
I do not agree with the current voting system, in which the value of a vote depends on the autonomous community in which you are. For me, a vote is a vote, whether in Cuenca (72,000 votes to obtain a seat) or in Asturias (135,000 votes to obtain a seat).
I am tired of the lies of politicians who only cling to tension to obtain votes without appealing to the common sense of citizens, in rallies that are nothing more than television advertisements to disqualify other groups and also to promulgate demagoguery, with obvious phrases that everyone understands, for those who shout to the tune of “President, President” with a blindfold covering their eyes.
Let the salaries be lowered (not even frozen) of public officials and that no one moves a hair, probably for fear that we will suffer the same fate as other PIGS.
That the largest Spanish company: Telefónica/Movistar decides to fire thousands of employees and in turn increase its benefits and the exaggerated remuneration of its managers and the fact that no one moves a hair seems like a joke to me.
It is because of things like the ones I mention in this post that I have spoken out. I believe that there truly is a #spanishrevolution but I think it is important to make it clear that unlike other countries, we do have democracy and we can change things, another issue is that we are aware of this and that on Sunday we prefer to stay at home sleeping off our hangover before going to vote for what we think is most convenient.