There is no rationality in the Spanish culture led by ideologised supporters.
José Vasconcelos, the Mexican thinker, said that when a population no longer has the strength to throw off the yoke, it ends up worshipping it. He also said that the duty of a government of the best is to impose justice, which does not consist in expropriating as communists do and making us pay taxes. Vasconcelos was right, but the problem is that fools are not very likely to select the best, and Spain today is a good example of this. In “A brave New World”, A. Huxley wrote: The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would be basically a prison without walls in which prisoners would not even dream, of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery, through consumption and entertainment; slaves would love their servitudes. Do you not think that the improvement that Sánchez seeks in democratic quality is moving in this direction? They told us that we would have nothing, but would be happy.
Have you not noticed that socialists never feel shame? Whoever has no values cannot be aware of breaching anything. Shame stems from perceiving that one knows one has gone against a rule; but whoever sets no rules does not feel they are going against them.
A good government is obliged to protect citizens’ lives, and not to lead them.
It should strive to allow them to earn a living, and not subsidise citizens and allow them to live badly by depending on the government. According to Eurostat, when Sánchez started governing the poverty index in Spain was 21.5%, but is 27% today. Spain is the third EU country with such figures, with only Romania and Bulgaria behind it. Spanish productivity is 25% lower than the EU mean. According to the Bank of Spain unemployment and youth unemployment will not go below 11% and 30%, respectively. Spaniards are worse off, and after deducting inflation, per capita income has been stagnated for two decades.
With persistent inflation, and without lowering income tax due to inflation, Spaniards are under very high tax pressure with comparatively low salaries compared to the EU. Accessing housing in large Spanish cities is now a luxury, and survival for many is impossible. According to the COFIDIS report, 80% of families who are buying a home admit they normally have problems paying their mortgage, and so have 70% of those renting homes.
President Sánchez boasts that the Spanish GDP rises more than the rest of the EU. The BBVA Bank Chairman, Mr. Torres, flatters Sánchez by stating that Spain will grow more than the EU mean of 2.5%, which is less than inflation. However, Mr. Torres knows that if investment and consumption lower, public spending will grow, as will debt. The national insurance contributions paid by firms and the self-employed in the first trimester of 2019 are now 300% more. More than 140,000 small- and medium-sized enterprises have closed since this government arrived. Customers pay large firms’ taxes and business people pay rises in the minimum wage.
The biggest liar of Spanish Presidents threatens us with taking measures to “improve Spanish democracy” so we do not talk about the corruption in his family and party. He uses the mass media to make his lies believable after he has placed: employees who obey him in the Public Prosecutor’s Office; people at his service to head INE (National Statistics Institute) and CIS (Centre for Sociological Research); people in large firms’ Boards of Directors to increase state participation with debt, and to settle down forever. He squanders European funds on public firms and institutions, such as Adif, the Post Office and universities, rather than on helping firms that closed with what his government imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic to recover. He has passed laws by means of Royal Decrees, such as the totalitarian law called Historic Memory, typical of dictatorships, which coerces historians’ freedom; has constantly divided the Spanish population with artificial ideological confrontments, breaking separation of powers. Such is the democratic power that Sánchez offers us.
Sánchez has applied Decree Laws (presumably for urgent measures) more than any other democratic government in Spain, with 138. He has pardoned criminals, those who have attempted coups and embezzlers so they support him and keep him in government. Now that corruption flourishes in his family and party, he threatens us by saying that the government will decide which media use hoaxes and which do not, when all public channels state what the government desires, while private ones are subsidised with contracts and our taxes. The few existing private media are a minority and survive on private subscribers’ payments.
According to logic, in France or Germany, separatist parties are forbidden, but Spain empowers them from its government. Treason and embezzlement are normal. Have they asked Spaniards if they want their taxes to be used to finance such parties? Why not hold a referendum about this matter? Consented anti-Spanish indoctrination exists in separatist areas by means of linguistic singularity, with expulsions and threats (terrorists) for 200,000 families from Vascongadas, and institutional harassment of the Spanish Monarchy, which has spread anti-patriotic feelings in the population. Spain’s king is merely ornamental, makes no gestures when the Spanish Constitution weakens, and is not where he should be.
The only successes that unite Spaniards and bring about a feeling of Spanish rooting are those achieved by Spanish sport. Typically, the Spanish Royal House has sent a visible representative to main sport finals; if a Spaniard or a Spanish team wins, the Spanish national anthem is heard. Abdicated King Juan Carlos I used to attend or he sent a representative. Perhaps it is a silent pact for separatist grants; who knows!
What is also shameful, at least by those who feel it, is when tennis player Alcaraz heard the Spanish anthem when he recently won the French Open. Nobody from the Spanish Royal House attended while the anthem was being played and the Spanish flag was on show.
Spanish King Philip VI could have raised some doubt about constitutionality when the days left to sign the unconstitutional Amnesty Law drew to an end, or shown some discontent, even to merely delay it being signed for a few days. His behaviour does not match his public appearance when separatists rebelled. King Philip VI is not up to scratch by not attending the main sport events that Spaniards play. If he could not go, he should have sent Princess Leonor.
President Sánchez makes us feel ashamed of being Spanish with his lies and totalitarian ways, but what is more shameful is having so many fellow citizens who vote corrupt people, tyrants and traitors. This explains why Spain was an empire before, but is now a ruined country both materially and morally, and has no official language. Sin will give penance to these voters when debt is too high, and when whatever government is in power then will have to cut pensions. Then we will notice a change in our previous and present standard of living, and in the welfare we once had, which we will miss. Education is at an all-time low, as is Primary Health Care for being saturated and bureaucratised.
I feel ashamed of having: a Head of State who is head of nothing, and is only useful for less; an army that neither enforces the Spanish Constitution, nor defends territorial integrity. It is unable to defend us from domestic and overseas enemies, with domestic amnesty-related coups (including embezzlements by the Catalan Pujol family), nor from thousands of invasions by illegal immigrants who are unknown athletic-looking individuals of military age. Can it not be a Trojan Horse? Who makes sure that there are no terrorists if we do not know who they are and they are distributed without having an integration plan?
The silent complicity of anyone who increases superfluous public spending is general. What can civil servants do to not collaborate with squandering governments?; to not contribute to squander public spending, to national debt? One is Spanish more than a civil servant; one must be more responsible than obey squandering advisors. There are thousands of teachers and administration workers too many (due to smart digitisation) and are amortisable. Secondary Education teachers complain about having an absurd number (32) of students in any class, when the classroom ratio has always been 40 per class, and they do less than ever between 1 July and 1 September. The Spanish university is no better for teaching more degrees; university students are drawn by subsidising costs by 80%. Competition among universities does not exist; it is a lie. Students select public university because it is cheaper.
Material and moral degradation is enough to make myths like Rafa Nadal collapse, who does not know how to leave his career, which is suffering. Today Marcel Granollers is the best Spanish doubles player, the world’s number 2 doubles player in the ATP, and was number 1 month ago. There is no other Spaniard in the top 150. If Nadal wants to play in the Paris Olympic Games, he should play doubles with Granollers, who is the only one who deserves to participate in doubles. Alcaraz is also wrong by considering playing doubles with Nadal because he prevents Granollers from playing these doubles. Both Nadal and Alcaraz, two sport geniuses, are going to make fools of themselves in Paris, and there will be no need for the Spanish King to attend because the Spanish anthem will not be played in doubles. As a tennis fan, I feel ashamed that federations and players themselves do not protest about such fan-type behaviour. What is left of Spain when our best sportsperson of all time makes such a serious mistake?!