No. Absolutely not. This is just the sheep's clothing that capitalism puts on to continue being a wolf. As you can see, I am a bad writer of detective novels since in the first two sentences I have discovered that the murderer is the butler. Let's say that this first paragraph is for Twitter users and people who, having studied in educational systems that do little to facilitate reflection, can't stand many digressions and want to get to the point. For those who are able to continue reading, I am going to try to give some reasons why the butler is the murderer.
To begin with, I understand that democracy consists of citizens freely deciding their destinies. Well, tell me what we citizens decide. Here we vote, we don't decide, and voting and deciding are not the same thing.
Secondly, when we vote, we do so with a law that does not respect the principle of one person, one vote. The D'Hondt law, the electoral districts and the minimum requirements to have representation take care of that. Not even in the act of voting are we equal. Of course, this law has been made by very well-intentioned people who, as always, have thought about the good of all and wanted a governable country. It would never occur to me to think that it was because it benefited the majority parties.
We vote and, since our democracy is representative, all we do is elect those who are going to represent us. Why do we vote for them? Supposedly because their program is the one we like the most. Well, the day after the elections they can spend the entire legislature flipping you off and laughing out loud because no law forces them to comply.
Once voted, they go to their privileged ivory tower, and four years later they return and give you the great right to resort to tantrums and vote whether you continue with the same middle finger or prefer to try another that may be funnier. And so per secula seculorum.
By the way, as I believe I am a self-critical person and recognize mistakes (I have learned it from politicians), I must correct what I said at the beginning that we do not decide. Sometimes they ask us to decide and they want to make us a referendum, as in Catalonia or so that we say yes or no to the explorations. Wonderful, of course, as a citizen I want to decide, but not only when it is in the interest of party A or B to do so, which is what this implies. I want to decide if I want tax havens or not, privileges, monarchy or republic, cuts, constitution, evictions, transparency, approve important laws, etc. Are your lordships really going to be so magnanimous as to grant me that too?
And so with the panorama we have of lack of democracy, crisis, corruption, unemployment, indignation... how could it not occur to them that we needed a democratic regeneration. Of course, yes, and also at this very moment. We must recognize that they are people of great concern for the problems of their people.
The first champion, the PP. Of course, when I saw what it meant for them, I thought it was a reading comprehension error. I must recognize that the error was not theirs but mine, because I had not read the meaning that the dictionary gave for peperos and that was "make changes so that we continue winning". With this meaning they are nailing it.
And others are also starting to give the facade a coat of paint to see if that is enough and there is no need to spend on work that is more expensive.
And here we continue with 37 years of the so-called democratic restoration that, from what it seems, must have come out with some serious health problem because it does not grow and still continues with baby food, diapers and Little Red Riding Hood stories. I thought it was time for him to eat sancocho, wear a suit and read García Márquez.
And finally I must say that I have interrupted the writing of my article to consult information on the Internet about detective novels. It says that one of the characteristics is to maintain suspense to trap the reader. Well, I don't think that will be the case, but in my next article I will try to explain what I understand by a 21st century democracy.