The unique message of political correctness imposes on Spaniards a celebration that a priori anesthetizes any analysis. It is true that next December 6 will mark 40 years since the Constitution obtained the support of 88% of the 67% who voted of all Spaniards who could vote, but from there to it being a reason for deserved celebration in 2018 there is a big difference. The very broad support in the referendum that the Magna Carta had unequivocally demonstrated in 1978 the desire for democracy that existed at that time, something in which the Spaniards of the 21st century fully agree. However, what is questionable is whether we should qualify the anniversary as a celebration. Because celebrating implies praising, celebrating and praising, and if we praise and praise the democracy of Spain in 2018, we will surely be confused. Let the shared desire for freedom of yesterday and today not cloud our judgment, and let us responsibly evaluate what we have done with that freedom that we assume. Precisely that, clarifying the judgment, is what I propose in this opinion article.
Apart from having lived in freedom, which is no small thing, has democracy served for anything else? Because if the answer to that question is negative, what would be celebrated each year would only be that we are no longer under a dictatorship, which is what those who voted YES in that 1978 referendum mainly longed for, which would lead to the conclusion that we would have advanced nothing, and that's where things are headed. Only two political parties have governed in this period. The one who calls himself a socialist worker has ruined Spain twice and has shot unemployment whenever he has been in the Government to limits never seen until each of those moments. To make matters worse, and to further scorn those who call themselves socialists, that Party has starred, every time it has come to power, in the greatest corruption in this country, with cases such as the blatant theft of billions of public euros from the most disadvantaged, the unemployed. But, on the other hand, the other political party, which defines itself as a Christian humanist and liberal in economic matters, in addition to having also jumped on the bandwagon of corruption, like the socialist one, has shown that it neither defends the right to life, so it has as much of a Christian as I have of an astronaut, nor does it apply liberal principles in the economy, since in its last opportunity to govern Spain, even with an absolute majority, it increased the public debt by more than 400,000 million ? and shot up taxes, which demonstrates its unusual betrayal of economic liberalism and its shameful embrace of the always failed socialist recipes throughout the history of Humanity. More clearly, the Popular Party is the one that has increased public debt the most, and the fastest, and who has also raised taxes the most in a shorter period of time. So it has as much of a liberal in economics as I have of a violinist.
Leaving aside, and it costs a lot, the economic aspects that lead us to conclude, for example, that in 1978, with a GDP eight times smaller, Spain had half the unemployment it has in 2018 or that the public debt of each Spaniard was 3,000 ? compared to the almost 25,000 ? that we Spaniards assume in 2018, and analyzing other aspects, we see that the bleak panorama is not limited to finances, but extends to other areas. For example, the unsustainable autonomous state that we have developed since 1978. The Constitution allowed the development of a monstrous institutional and public business structure that results in the Spain of 2018 having 1 politician for every 115 citizens compared to 1 for every 325 in France or 1 for every 800 in Germany. In Spain, the autonomies have produced more politicians than doctors, police and firefighters combined; or that in the US, which has 325 million inhabitants compared to Spain's 47, there are 412 official cars compared to Spain's 12,000.
This institutional megalomania that the 1978 Constitution has allowed to develop does not stop at the superficial, but impactful, figures that I have provided above. The delusion of grandeur, as if it were an infinitely rich country, also includes, for example, providing universal healthcare to any illegal immigrant who has never contributed, including the most advanced diagnostic tests and the most expensive surgical interventions, which makes us something completely unusual in the international context. We also give housing and public money to those who enter through one of our borders with the intention of staying, whether or not they are going to contribute to Spain. But the infinite do-goodism in which we are installed allows the flag of Spain to be burned or any symbol or institution of the State to be publicly insulted, without any consequence for whoever does it.
Finally, it is necessary to understand the sad reality that we live today and that definitively denies that we Spaniards have a healthy and, therefore, praiseworthy democracy in 2018. This reality is what both the PSOE and the PP have allowed for decades to the separatists, agreeing with them always and tolerating their presence in all the institutions of the state. Spanish democracy, under the umbrella of the Constitution, allows those who aim to end democracy and the Constitution itself to be in the Senate, in Congress and in the 17 autonomous Parliaments and Governments to consummate their bastard intentions with impunity. Communists who dream of Marxist-Leninist dictatorships for Spain and violent radical separatists, who fantasize about the liquidation of the national sovereignty of the Spaniards, have taken advantage and take advantage of the weakness and desire for power of the only two political parties that have governed in Spain. No one can celebrate in the name of democracy a situation of chronic coup d'état whose response is null by that State. Spain and its democracy live in 2018 an authentic shame without equal among countries with advanced democracies.
The good part, I don't want to end this article without mentioning it, is that all is not lost. The possible reversibility of the autonomous burden and the consequent economic viability of Spain; the certain recovery of all autonomous powers by the State and the resulting shift towards the real equality of all Spaniards, and the rescue of the shipwrecked Spanish democratic patriotism are really possible. Likewise, it is possible to end, with all the democratic tools provided by the Spanish Constitution itself, the coup d'état that Spain is suffering. Everything is in our hands and only if we manage to live up to the historical challenge, only in that case, will we be able to truly celebrate the anniversary of the Constitution of Spain. Not before.
