Yesterday was the International Day of Democracy.
What a beautiful word in the lips of almost anyone. But, sometimes, how scarce the content in actions, also, of almost anyone.
You may not believe in Democracy, it is normal, one of the problems is that the laws have stopped being fulfilled and we have lost the awareness that it is mandatory to comply with them. When one does not believe in the laws and Justice is questioned, the foundations of morality falter. And there is nothing more dangerous than living with a lack of morality. Because we enter a jungle of value judgments that do not have a constitution that can guide them.
And to make matters worse, our Constitution has become a utopia. A little book that we have never seen in practice but that we try to respect as much as possible, even knowing that when we start reading it, we quickly see that we are not respected either.
Therefore, how are we going to respect something that does not respect you?
Article 35. All Spaniards have the duty to work and the right to work, to free choice of profession or trade, to promotion through work and to sufficient remuneration to satisfy their needs and those of their family, without in any case discrimination being made on the grounds of sex.
(This article of our Magna Carta is curious considering that thousands of people will become unemployed in the coming years due to technological "automation")
Therefore, the economic system does NOT comply with the Constitution either.
Article 47 of the Spanish Constitution: All Spaniards have the right to enjoy decent and adequate housing. To have a dignified life.
Look!...another article that they ignore! And we could continue...
The problem is that many believe that the Constitution only contains article 155.
Ignorance is so audacious that there will never be a worthy justification in this country to cut back on Education.
Something terrible has happened to Democracy and that is that we have ended up thinking that we are all democrats... of posturing.
Politics with its same traditional format, with its posters, its campaigns and the "you too more"... while people move further and further away from the Institutions.
The Institutions, which should be the comfort zone of the citizens, have become the last building to want to visit.
People do not like the Institutions, because they look at them with distrust and liken them to tedious bureaucratic processes, but above all the lack of knowledge. Since very few have been in charge of presenting them.
It is sad, because in those Institutions there are valuable people who practice democracy in the best way they know, fulfilling what they promise. But unfortunately, the worms of Democracy also reside there, who are those who promised and not only did not fulfill, but disrespected us, took Democracy as a shortcut on their particular path to be able to retire on a yacht with what may be your mother's pension to have a dignified and well-deserved end (on their way).
For all this, we cannot pretend to consider ourselves better for being democrats. Possibly Democracy is a trompe l'oeil that makes us get closer to civility and a certain order. But chaos always ends up appearing in some City Council in this country.
However, I have tried (I have really been trying for an hour) to write that you pass on Democracy, that you do not go to vote, because I know that no one in this country wants to see posters with promises, letters, ballots and archaic debates of "you too more", because sincerely, I think people would turn off the TV.
But, certainly, I am going to tell you quickly so that it does not hurt so much; if we have to go again in a couple of months, we should be democrats and go again with our wrinkled envelope.
It is too important to speak out, because if you do not do politics for yourself, I assure you that others will take care of doing it.
And it is good to keep in mind that
the advantage of the intelligent is the ignorance of the rest.
If democracy does not have committed citizens, it will never be effective.
Although the transition to Democracy has not made us better people, at least, we try to get a little closer.
Fundamentally, because for all dictators Democracy is the worst system. And this is a very important fact to take into account to value it.
Remember that many people come to power in part because of the indifference of people like those who do not vote, or because of the ignorance of the Vox neighbor (that too). And those people who were elected because we did not go to vote, once they are in power, will defend policies for the economic development of minorities, in exchange for the sacrifice of the majorities. They harm us all. And also THE PLANET.
Therefore, we must always take care of, maintain and water DEMOCRACY.
What would a new election result be like? I do not know, what I do know is that whatever they say, the real polls reside in the eyes of the citizens... and there is a collective look that has tired eyes. Possibly, because the most dramatic thing is that the welfare state is in danger of extinction due to the pathological division of the left.
And that division may end up making Spain, SUBTRACT.
Amalia M. Fajardo
