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The only geographical space in the world in which rights and social protection exist, the only one where the State is not a mere police officer at the service of the oligarchy, the only one where there is still a minimum desire for justice redistributive is Europeespecially the Europe where we live. The educationalthough increasingly ideological due to concerts with the Catholic Church, is a right and a duty until the age of sixteen, health care, also decimated by privatizations, continues to be barely a guarantee of life expectancy, the majority of Elderly or sick people receive a pension, the unemployed receive unemployment benefits and in no country is free dismissal without further ado permitted. There are laws that moderate the voracity of the markets and measures are proposed, without being implemented, to alleviate them. the effects of the brutal pollution caused by human action. In the rest of the planet, including the United States, none of this exists and not only does it not exist, it is not even raised, because these questions remain outside the collective imagination, because the power of the oligarchy is so brutal that it has contaminated the thought of the outcasts, of the undocumented and of workers of all classes.
Spain came out of a bloody dictatorship through the false door. It is possible that after the death of the dictator there was no other alternative given the correlation of forces, but despite this, the changes assumed by the Spanish people were such that in a few years they went from a timorous society gripped by Stockholm syndrome. from national-Catholicism to another with secular, open and generous behaviors. From telling jokes about faggots or cripples so typical of the dictatorship, we went in a short space of time to having one of the most advanced legislations on the rights of homosexuals, to the majority respect by the population for any sexual option, to have centers where the life of any person with other capabilities and economic benefits that allow them to develop their lives with a minimum of well-being is dignified. From the poor healthcare of the dictatorship in which there were hardly any medications financed by Social Security and in which the majority of the population had to look for a doctor through equal services outside the system, we went on to have arsenals of medications in our bathrooms and access to a family doctor who treated us for minor illnesses and sent us to specialized centers when they were more serious. From a pension system in which a very considerable part of the population had to continue working when they retired in order to survive, to the current one where the average pension is fourteen hundred euros. From a road network until 1989 that was almost the same as it was in 1936 to one of the most extensive and efficient in Europe both in number of kilometers and in terms of free access. From some abandoned and miserable towns in which there was hardly any pavement or, in many cases, running water, to others where their historical heritage was recovered and thousands of houses were rehabilitated, which would later be devoured by speculation. At what point did everything go wrong?
There are two defects that have been conditioning our future since the very years of the transition, when reforms as necessary as that of the structure of economic power were not faced, the majority of which were born during the dictatorship and with the customs of the regime, another, the of the Judiciary, which in its upper echelons continues to be occupied by people with extremely conservative ideology and very committed to their ideology. The Francoist economy was based on an oligarchic structure that was allowed to do as it pleased without the State being able, on the contrary, to subject it to a minimally civic praxis. From the public works that were awarded to companies owned by families in cahoots with the regime, to the urbanization of towns and cities that was carried out – you only have to look at the neighborhoods built during those years and the irreparable damage that some of the cities suffered. most beautiful – according to the whims of the promoter on duty and always respecting the property of the chiefs of each place, so that the traditional economic power continued to grow and that enormous profits were provided to newcomers like José Banus. Financial power continued, and continues to be the same, as did industrial power, until the implementation of large multinational industries, based on monopoly and protection at the expense of the interests of the subjects. Monopoly, official protection and speculation – born with the post-war black market – were the economic basis of a despotic regime of miserable salaries that forced millions of Spaniards to flee to other European countries where they could begin to live.
The moment when everything started to go wrong was when the biggest speculative wave in our recent history was unleashed with the Aznar Government.
Regarding the judiciary, the creation of the National Court with members of the old Public Order Court, the lack of financial means and the maintenance at the top of all judicial instances of people linked to the Opus or other reactionary institutions, has allowed both the presence in it of judges such as Eloy Velasco, Marchena or García Castellón and their inaction in cases of flagrant white-collar crimes carried out by politicians and businessmen close to their thoughts, thus contributing to the survival of a model political and economic parasite and speculator, which does not prevent thousands of ordinary judges from doing their work with the greatest possible objectivity and dedication.
Taking these premises into account, the moment when everything began to go wrong was when the Aznar Government unleashed the greatest wave of speculation in our recent history, when all of Spain was a plot of land, when we could all get rich by buying off-plan and selling two. months later, twice as much, when we stopped having an ethical sense of the economy, of life in society, of politics, when we decided that the only purpose of our existence was to hit the ball, earn lots of easy money, hang out with the thugs. to see If we caught something, well, when we agreed that ethics was a hindrance and that our new gods were the most unscrupulous, the achievers, the achievers, the pirates. That’s where it all started, and we’re still there when the planet is about to give us the red card, every day more ignorant, every day more proud of being so.
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