At this stage of the sociopolitical situation, the average citizen suffers from a mandatory identity confusion. Upon waking up, it seems obligatory to dress in the blue uniform or the red one. All this happens under the silent threat that if you don't speak or seek balance on digital networks, you'll be labeled a traitor to the homeland. Spain lives trapped in a harmful cycle where public debate no longer seeks to change ideas. It has now become a tennis match between closed and deaf blocs. Antonio Machado warned in his day that one of the two Spains would freeze the hearts of the new citizens. However, the current diagnosis is even simpler because what the political class is rapidly freezing is everyone's patience.
Voters' weariness is not a feeling of a few but a real problem stored in the data of official bodies. According to the latest studies from the Sociological Research Center (CIS), distrust or boredom with traditional politics continuously affects more than eighty percent of the population. Political parties and parliament remain year after year in surveys as the second biggest problem in the country. This situation is only surpassed by unemployment. This problem demonstrates a deep divorce between those in power and the people on the street.
Institutional politics has replaced good economic management with television spectacle and constant provocation. Criticism or simple technical control have become impossible in this environment. If you criticize a measure of the central government, they immediately call you a fascist. If you question the exaggerated speeches of the opposition, they accuse you of being a radical or of helping the system. This false division of the social map (which mimics schoolyard fights) forces citizens to choose a trench while important problems are forgotten amidst so much noise.
The big difference between what is discussed in parliament and the priorities of the street can be measured with numbers. The CIS itself confirms that while party leaders prefer the fight over identities and division, a solid sixty percent of citizens always place the housing and rent crisis in first place. They also choose the defense of public healthcare and the lack of good jobs as their real daily emergencies. This constant weariness does not depend on traditional political ideas. It is the natural defense of a society that feels used only to gain votes in elections.
The root of this problem is not that different ideas exist because variety is necessary for a healthy democracy. The real problem lies in the great economic and electoral benefit that political fighting provides. Division is above all a business model that helps gain viewers on television and multiplies internet visits. It also prevents leaders from having to work on creating laws that actually work.
A study by the EsadeEcPol platform confirms this trend. This report places Spain at the forefront of the European Union in levels of extreme division. This causes an effect where the voter not only rejects the opponent's proposals but despises their very existence. It is much easier and cheaper to recall fears from the past than to create a long-term educational reform or a youth employment plan that curbs the population's problems.
To break this hijacking of common sense, the return to democratic normality will not come with new theoretical speeches. It will come with practical and profound changes in the functioning of the State.
Citizens must assume active responsibility when they go to vote. Parties that base their strategy on insults and blocking institutions must be punished. The useful vote must change its meaning to reward the capacity for work and budget control over empty gestures.
It is essential to carry out a total reform in the way the heads of the judiciary and the media are chosen. Institutions as important as the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) or the Constitutional Court must be kept out of the power-sharing of the parties. It must be guaranteed that their directors are chosen by committees of independent professionals based on their merits and neutrality.
It is urgent to create by law strict systems to monitor the results of laws through independent audits. Governments can no longer be judged by their good intentions written down but by the real impact of their decisions measured by transparent agencies.
Spanish society cannot remain a mute audience in a theater designed only for politicians to keep their jobs. If people accept this fiction of opposing factions, they will continue to pay the salaries of those who live by dividing the country.
In summary, the country's recovery does not depend on shouts but on data and management. The real challenge for the next ten years is to break the spectacle of the parties and recover mature politics. Turning off the loudspeakers of artificial fighting is the only possible path. If this is not done, the logic of trenches will break the stability and coexistence of all society.
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