The PP's way of doing opposition ignores the fact that since 2004 the PSOE has been a sectarian and anti-constitutional party.
Hearing PP leader Casado evokes an image of a crocodile hidden beneath water surprising and attacking a zebra when it drinks at a river. Casado’s reasoning is right, but moves no-one; being right is not enough. With rivals willing to do anything, ally with anyone to reach power, he needs moral courage. I think that he made a mistake following Rajoy’s model. Never cross the same river twice. The board has more players and they ally. We have had two terrible crises in 12 years. Transmitting emotions, defending values, the credibility that depositing courage provides, having nothing to do with verbal fierceness, but with a quality moral message, with a spiritual connection with voters. The crocodile of the extreme left devours them, which is bad for Spain and not only for its voters.
Some recent examples of this type of rival include Minister Marlaska dismissing Coronel Pérez de los Cobos for obeying a female judge during a legal investigation that went against the government’s interests. The feminist demonstration on 8 March 2020 was allowed and explosively spread COVID-19 at the worst time of the pandemic, its outbreak. During the state of alarm, and without public funds, the government squandered propaganda expenditure by subsiding private TV channels with public money to defend its positions and to discredit the opposition, like describing the third democratic force in Spain as extreme rightwing. It is willing to do anything to remain in power. Propaganda to form electoral adhesions via cultural hegemony, and spreading vulnerable people’s fear so they believe the government will protect them.
Three centuries ago, Spinoza and today’s neuroscience show that people act via emotions, and not discussion. It is not enough to be right to convince, but to emotionally move voters by arousing positive values. Apart from the rival not stating you are right, being right is not enough, not even to give a class because if students are not motivated, their attention will never be grabbed. The way ideas are presented is as, or even more, important as ideas themselves. If you do not draw attention, everything else is useless. Necessary courage sums credibility, but having a complex deducts.
If after a good discourse people abstain when the government declares a longer state of alarm it is because the message is negative. People anxious for freedom feel the threat of economic ruin, totalitarianism and separatism, and look at who do not go to the Sunday 24M demonstration with thousands of Spanish flags. Part of its voters will abandon PP for being useless, and we all know where those votes will go.
Since Rajoy, PP operates with complexes because it is told that it imitates the extreme right. It they tell it so, it is because it is worth their while. Ally for real and you’ll see how they shake. Rajoy’s “high-and-mighty” model has come to an end, moderate correction is not enough, and more so being in the opposition. Leading the opposition is being a certified loser. If it renounces the street and values, rivals will take the street, and its supportive media will magnify it. Apart from PP’s interests, its attitude is important for us all, for the good of the country.
PP’s lack of public claim infects its voters, and an imitation effect occurs when others govern; a completely obedient and passive attitude. How can PP voters be expected to rebel against any abuse anywhere is the leaders of the party they vote for are passive and obedient?
When the left governs, PP voters act as if cooperating with the left’s own interests in day-to-day life. Politics is not practiced only on voting days. Left propaganda uses education as a fundamental pivot. PP voters’ passiveness is seen daily at public university. What is worse is that they are not even aware. The zebra can be devoured not only by the a crocodile hidden in water, but also in its own territory by a leopard called VOX.
Published in the Las Provincias newspaper on 22nd December 2022.