A generation of ungrateful people who betray their children
There has been much talk about the excellent aspects of the Spanish transition, and how well we went from a dictatorship to democracy, so they say. I feel that a greater miracle was that of a ruined country recovering after the Spanish Civil War and creating conditions for the Spanish economy to resurge in 1960-70. No-one even mentions this because intellectuals have disappeared after taking refuge in the mangers of the universities and mass media that are subsidised by and depend on the government. Separatist/communist media propaganda and the corresponding political parties never stop moaning about the danger of the VOX party, of losing social rights and of returning to the gloomy past. Let’s look at how Franco left Spain and the way the country is in now. The gloomy past must only be for them, the separatists and communists. In Spain, homosexuals are not prosecuted, and VOX does not demand that.
Denying public propaganda and public LGBT display do not do away with any rights. In Russia and Cuba, homosexuals are prosecuted.
As a child of 10 in about 1966, when immigrants arrived in Valencia, mainly from south-western Spain, searching for work, my father made me accompany them to firms where they would find work. There was no unemployment because we produced everything and people were eager to work. Middle class children enjoyed studying and obtained grants for which they needed a B grade on average, and they went to university, which did not seem that good when I arrived in 1973, with frequent strikes in 1975 when Franco was dying, and everything was unsettled with the ETA terrorist group murdering.
What was good back then was human capital. Students studied and were used to a demanding education system with final exams for basic and higher secondary education, which would make today’s students faint only thinking about them. I do not know who made decisions, if it were Franco himself or his advisors, but the economy that he left in Spain in 1975 was quite miraculous.
I know that telling the truth is unfashionable, and being leftish, moderate and obedient is. To read what the leftish write, leave this blog because it tells truths that are never mentioned. It is not true that only children, the mad and the drunk tell the truth. If you pay attention, grandparents also tell it. I am not a grandparent, but I could be one of them.
To begin with, the Spanish transition did not go from a dictatorship to a democracy, but went to a particracy (an oligarchy of party political bosses), where the Electoral and Parties Law allows killers, psychopaths, liars, or even those who possess all three characteristics, to be president of the government. No filtering is done to avoid this situation, and the chosen representatives on lists closed and blocked by political bosses are far-removed from citizens and do not represent us. This is the democracy that they state we have.
German legislation prohibits communist parties, and the French do the same with separatist parties. These serious countries forgive neither secession nor misappropriation, and they do not pardon criminals who go against the State’s unity. As we can verify today, the 1978 Spanish Constitution does not avoid elected governments being able to break division of powers, equality in the eyes of the law or respecting private property. Nor does it favour territorial equality and it also allows governments to betray Spain. So the transition was not that wonderful.
Obviously things could have been different if the two main political parties had cooperated, which they did not, but preferred to alternate in power by paying blackmail to nationalist parties and awarding them by allowing them to participate by having seats in Parliament. With terrorism, the Basques expelled 200,000 inhabitants who did not vote nationalist parties with threats and by shooting. They had to emigrate to not be murdered or extorted.
That was indeed a gloomy past: politicians taking refuge in their own country due to separatists who used bombs and pistols. Winning elections is easy if you expel those who do not vote you. Catalan governors were consented corruption and anti-Spanish indoctrination throughout Catalonia. Traitor governors and those who vote them can take us to another war among Spaniards, but hunger will arrive sooner
The army, which is disarmed and hand-tied, appears unable to defend us from interior and exterior enemies. The Civil Guard has been expelled from well-established separatist areas (the Balearics and the Valencian Community are emerging separatist areas). During the pandemic, we watched General Santiago confess on TV about who and how those in command in the Civil Guard serve, who have been placed by socialists. They do not serve Spaniards, but the government. If this is an exception or the norm, I do not know. However, Minister Marlaska’s illegal dismissals of other Civil Guard officers who did not obey the government, but what is legal, looks really bad
As we have seen that the Spanish transition was not so miraculous, now we go on to see why the last third Franco mandate from 1962 to 1975 was. The convergence of a good government with ministers who understood their mission (not like now with illiterate and uneducated people in Cabinet meetings) and virtuous conditions allowed authentic capitalism to flourish: industry, good education, low taxes, religiousness, austerity, honesty and savings.
Socialism twists reality to deceive voters with proven success.
The contents of the public education system exclude any liberal content and socialist views of the world are generated. Genuine capitalism is a system of values that is counterintuitive; effort must be made to achieve and maintain this, and it is based on saving (spending less than one earns) and constantly investing. It requires order, industry, legal security, low taxes to favour commerce, assets and services freely exchanged at an agreed price and in mutual benefit. There are neither winners nor losers because the price has been agreed. If it is too high for buyers, it is not purchased. Sellers have to buck up because otherwise they are ruined
Honesty, always telling the truth, is needed because there must be trust in commercial exchanges with every unwritten contract being fulfilled, which is what the commercial relationship is. The president of the government can be liar, but not traders, who would have no customers because they would not trust liars. Austerity and having the capacity to resist overspending are necessary to save instead of squandering and investing. Discipline and religiousness help these purposes.
Neither ownership is robbery, nor are businesspeople and autonomous traders thieves or exploiters. These are false socialist stigmas based on envy and bitterness. It is more of a matter of wickedness than ignorance. Those who vote them are ignorant. The bigger the public sector is, the more corruption there is, more taxes and more red tape. All this reduces the private sector, which cannot withstand fiscal pressure and, therefore, fewer taxes are collected. The country is becoming increasingly more communist with a growing public sector.
Taxes were very low in Franco’s time. There was no income tax, we had Social Security shared with private health, and despite nationalising quite a few energy and telephone services, there were good teachers and demanding education. People made the effort working and studying. In 1975, we had one civil servant for every 51 inhabitants, while now there is one for every 14 inhabitants, and public spending has practically tripled. Then we had no debt, unlike now when every Spaniard owes more than 32,000 euros per capita, when the average income is 28,000 euros/year and has, by the way, been stagnated since the PSOE party became communist/separatist with Zapatero
What social rights did we not have in 1975 that we have today?
Communists and separatists were persecuted then, but they are today in Germany and France, and they are prosperous. Today liberals are pursued in Spain, and the only difference is they put a cloth on them when they are hit so there is less blood.
Does Spain operate better today? Do we have more freedom? I do not know about you, but I felt more freedom in Franco’s time (after 1960) than now. Perhaps this is because I study and work. Today they pursue me for having opinions at the socialist university we have now and Inland Revenue does not leave me alone. Dissidents are still not put away or killed, but let communists govern longer and then we shall see
Many of my college and faculty colleagues took advantage of the Franco system of grants, and were just as studious and free as I was, and were obedient to Franco. Now they are obedient to communists and separatists. They are “leftish” and vote those who govern us today because they do not wish to return to the “gloomy tunnel” that enabled them to live better than anyone will ever be able to live in Spain. They state that they fear losing social rights if PP governs with VOX. What they should think about is the Spain they are leaving to their children and grandchildren. They should go to a mirror, look at themselves, and ask themselves what they see, and whether they betray their children and country by voting for who they vote.
The virtuous conditions that were fulfilled in the final part of Franco’s mandate allowed Spain’s economy to take off, which supplied enviable economic conditions, envied by the whole world, with a large middle class, no unemployment. Those of us from the baby boom have taken advantage of this and will retire in the next 5 years, and will have probably lived like no other generation will live in Spain.
The opposite of virtuous capitalism virtues is communism, which is where Spain has been moving towards since Zapatero and Sánchez arrived. An ever-increasing public sector, which involves more high taxes, debt, paying interests, very little being invested and reducing private activity and commerce because they cannot withstand fiscal pressure. In the end, there is generalised precariousness, loss of freedom, legal insecurity, infringement of private property, a smaller middle class, a lower birth rate, etc., and then poverty, hunger, etc. Here are some examples of very rich countries in Franco’s times: Argentina or Venezuela, but where are they now? Now do you understand why?