On May 22 (May 22, 2011, in the middle of spring), Spaniards are called to the crucial regional elections to the autonomous communities, island councils and city councils, and later to the general elections. The context is the ...
On May 22 (May 22, 2011, in the middle of spring), Spaniards are called to the crucial regional elections to the autonomous communities, island councils and city councils, and later to the general elections. The context is that of a country in economic crisis and scandalized by cases of political-urban corruption (mainly starring the right-wing party, the PP).
All this occurs during a time of very high unemployment figures, under a socialist government led by an economic incompetent (in his own words), Rodríguez Zapatero (ZP), who came to power for the "No to war" and the dark attacks of 11-M, but mainly due to the war policy of his predecessor and political opponent Aznar, a right-winger from the PP.
However, the population's ignorance regarding the origin of the financial/economic crisis is key, which is none other than the oil shortage (3rd world oil crisis) due to the criminal and unjust wars of invasion promoted by the right wing of the West (Azores trio) in the Middle East (Afghanistan and Iraq), wars initiated under the previous right-wing government (Aznar). People do not usually know that the two major world economic crises were already two oil crises, that of 73 and that of 79, both due to war and political conflicts in the Middle East (Israel and Iran, respectively).
The pre-election protest movements of the "No to war", 8 years before 2011, were already obviously "oriented" (!) by the attacks of 11-M, absurdly attributed to ETA at first by the PP in the media, which determined, together with the popular rejection of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the victory at the polls of the centrist left of ZP (PSOE).
The "good people", outraged by the obvious lie about ETA's authorship, violate the electoral reflection day by massively taking to the streets, mobilized by SMS messages, with the common text "pass it on". It is the first antecedent of widespread use of new information and communication technologies in the mediatization of elections.
The PSOE achieves electoral victory, although without an absolute majority.
8 years later, with the social networks (facebook, twitter...) of the Internet already established, and with the aforementioned precedents, but also with forecasts of a clear victory for the right in the polls, what seems like a reissue of the "hacking" ("piracy") of the elections by an abnormal and media event pre-election: again unprecedented protests in the street.
This time there is no attack in the week before the vote, but a new event: a new mass protest, apparently "apolitical" (!), convened through two platforms (?) of internet, of social networks (15-M and Real Democracy Now), and spurred by an octogenarian French Jew, Hessel, through an agitator pamphlet called "Indignez-vous!", of curious imperative tone. The equivalent of this paternal-geriatric figure is the philosopher Sampedro.
It is obvious to everyone that this is a movement of youthful aesthetics, promoting abstention, which is known to be "right-wing" in Spain, which means that typically only left-wing voters often abstain, for one excuse or another, from exercising suffrage, either through null votes, blank votes or votes for minority parties, benefiting by omission and pure stupidity and ignorance the right, whose voters are faithful and constant.
This movement initially lacks ideology (!), beyond populist slogans, simplistic and worrying, such as "they are all the same" and "do not vote for them", in reference to politicians... in general!
The diffuse message of "change"(!), under a center-left government, in a two-party system (promoted by the electoral law, which punishes the third force, United Left, through the d'Hondt system, obviously leads to prefigure a right-wing victory). All that was missing was the burning of the Reichstag in what seems in every way a well-planned exercise in demagoguery.
Tracing the origins of the two hyper-organized groups of social networks 15-M and DRY, already from the beginning individual researchers on the Internet pointed to the origin in ultra-right-wing groups of the same. DRY was directed by Enrique Dans, professor at a private university of the Opus Dei (ultra-Catholic right). 15-M was directed by Ricardo Galli, also an expert in social networks, worker of the UIB (University of the Balearic Islands). Both are not only united by a considerable facial resemblance, but also by a Jewish origin, clear and undeniable already in Galli. Let's not have taboos in saying it.
These two "experts" demagogically take advantage of the discomfort of young internet users over the Sinde anti-piracy Law to activate the propaganda machinery, in a truly unprecedented experiment, beyond Goebbels. You can see their faces and the attempt at demagogic prefabricated pseudo-progressive (they don't fool anyone) and populist discourse here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPMdx9nqlc8
The result is known to all: the (de)mobilization of the young left ironically leads to an unprecedented victory on a regional scale for the right, followed a few months later by another equally unprecedented victory by an absolute majority for the right this time at the state level.
The international circumstances (oil crisis caused by the neocolonialist wars of the right), and the misinformation about them, harm the ruling party at that time, the PSOE, since this reality is not communicated in any medium regarding the origin of the problem. Curiously, in the mass media, an incongruous and obscure financial framework (crisis of junk mortgages, or subprime crisis, or "ninja" crisis) is brandished to explain the crisis, a smokescreen.
This smokescreen is supported by two documentaries "A crude awakening (Peak Oil)" and "An inside job". Pure propaganda in the style of "An inconvenient truth", in which secondary factors are mentioned, but not THE primary factor of political (war) instability in the Middle East.
Thus the 15-M movement has been an essay of something that is being transplanted to other countries: the propagandistic demagoguery of the 21st century, the propaganda 2.0, the use of traditional mass media, this time also with mobiles and the Internet, to manipulate the masses and avoid democracy.
The underlying issue is that the vote should have punished the right, since it caused the world economic crisis. Ironically, the opposite was achieved, although this was already predetermined by the obvious inability of the PSOE to make its own the analytical discourse about the causes of the crisis and its foreseeable development.
15+7=22
15-M + 7 days=22-M
The day after the elections the campsites disappeared, and a year later, we have not seen them again. Welcome to the 21st century.
