Vox must be labeled

October 11 2018 (18:21 WEST)

Far right, that is the label that the media generally puts on VOX in an attempt to pejoratively differentiate it from the rest of the political parties. The unknown is feared when one lives from the known, and if, in addition, the unknown comes with real intentions to change things, it is even more feared. The written press, television and radio are financed in part by political parties and these, in turn, by public funds. VOX has not touched power and, therefore, does not participate in the distribution of funds from all Spaniards destined to finance those who touch power, so it does not offer what interests the media, money. Delving into the argument, VOX is perceived by the media as a threat to their current comfort zone in which everyone, and when I say everyone, it is even the anti-system communists, offer their particular manger to the hungry media.

It has reached the point where the stunned media are obliged to give coverage to what is happening with VOX, despite being certain that VOX does not have that fat manger dough whose public origin has no more merit than having touched institutional political power. But the media are under this obligation, because what is happening with VOX is a very important phenomenon that journalistically they cannot ignore, without charging VOX a single euro cent, because it does not have it, while they charge huge amounts to the rest of the parties that, in turn, are panicking at seeing the geometric growth of patriotic sentiment that Spanish society is showing, masterfully piloted by VOX.

To this mess that the media is facing, a devastating future factor is added. The patriotic party has made it clear that if it touches power it will eliminate public funding to all political parties and unions, that funding from which they eat and that keeps the media's manger warm. We are already seeing, therefore, that the last thing those who live off the parties want is for one to come to power that will subject them to profound changes and that will take them out of their manger comfort zone, because the fact that they will be more independent from the informative and deontological point of view, matters less to them.

Given that the only thing that matters is the dough, everything must be done to ensure that whoever constitutes a threat to the tap ceases to be so. The conspiracy to stop the VOX effect is served, hence the media treatment of the far right, that is, the bogeyman is coming and is going to eat us all.

From there, there are no more approaches; the concepts of far right and fascist merge into a harmonious marriage, officiated by the media, which results in considering any proposal that comes from that far-right and fascist party as negative. For example, eliminating 65,000 salaries from the autonomous state and the rest of the current expenses of the 17 autonomous parliaments and governments (we could talk about savings of about 60,000 million ?/year) is very far right. Or ending immigration policies that generate a call effect that fatten the mafias that traffic in human beings is also far right. Or opposing Europe facing Spain by not extraditing fugitive criminals or dictating the release of terrorists, rapists and pedophiles from prison is fascist. Or demanding that all Spaniards have the same job opportunities anywhere in Spain is the height of fascism.

What is clear is that the media is working to prevent millions of Spaniards from joining the spiral of the VOX cyclone, but it is clearer that the forces of nature prevail over human designs, especially when nature is Spain and human designs are the media.

 

By Sigfrid Soria del Castillo Olivares, affiliated with VOX

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