Looking back, I see that in recent months I have dedicated to the political question more space than it deserves. It is the sign of the times. Hence these are the penultimate reflections on the subject, which beginning to be tired.
Are we making a proper diagnosis of the current political problem? Or put another way for you What is the main political problem today?
view of what to read and say out there, it seems that the main problem in Spain's Zapatero, just as in France it is Sarkozy, Merkel in Germany, etc, etc, etc. In fact it is taking special care to note their faults (they are there) forgetting others.
By focusing on Spain, there is the rest of the socialist group, the opposition parties to vote with the government and the political class in general. Recall that a minority government passed a labor reform as the rest of the game is dire - of course they have not explained whether much or little - after be treated as a bill and not just amendments. Or is it a miracle, or someone wants to pass the buck.
Is the problem because the political class? No doubt it is a problem, but is the problem?.
As seen, more or less the same thing is happening across Europe, in the logical differences. So we can not deliver or emigrating.
Europe Is it wrong? Well, look, yes.
In some strange way, an encouraging integration project Europe and the creation of a supranational framework of government and administration has evolved into a totalitarian dictatorship. Yes, the thesis of this paper is that there has been a coup in Europe.
is true that all European states are democratic, at least in the sense that the people elect their representatives, with some minor deviations such as the English provinces (which are indirect democracies.) These countries comprise the European Union, so we've come to the conclusion that this is governed, therefore, by democratic principles.
Nothing is further from reality. European citizens only elected to Parliament, an institution that has almost no competition. Remember the European Constitution? Nothing has come to apply, despite being approved by a majority of citizens.
The European Union has given "powers" in key issues for the continent's nations, which are decided by officials or by handpicked political office but then are "independent" of the countries that should be useful, but yes, we cost a paste. Observe the European Central Bank.
So it is that our political representatives are controlled by some men who have chosen, to whom they owe obedience, and all that we cut no ice. What he joins a constellation of international organizations allegedly independent and wise, as the IMF, which also cost us our money and not accountable to any authority, even when they fail miserably, which is almost always.
All these bodies, as has been shown, using techniques pseudomafiosas, threatening to countries that do not fit the script that they have marked him as the vaunted globalization for all that has served it so that states can not control operators, which are what made and unmade at will, thus preventing anyone to take their own decisions if they are not provided. We saw what happened this spring in Europe.
In this situation it must be a change in our mindsets. It is clear that the legitimate pursuit of democratic change in power is no longer sufficient, since we chose to no longer rules our lives, or at least most of them. The change of a president for another or one party by another will not produce significant practical effects. In prior periods, similar situations led to totalitarian regimes, which only made things worse. The truth is that I doubt if this consequence, a totally undesirable, is now possible. In part, because the same power that controls this situation you can control that. In part by the logical it all: a supra-vivivos and authoritarian.
Confrontation and therefore is not between the proletariat and the employer, but between the city and economic-political power, being the city a different and broader concept than that of the proletariat. The purpose of the confrontation is for the establishment of a framework in which citizenship, ie all the citizens can freely choose the future of their society through participatory processes.
Unfortunately, this revolution demands from us an important sacrifice we have to sacrifice our comfort in mind, our apathy, our laziness, to use participatory channels that remain to regain the power that has been taken away. We must be clear that we are not interested in maintaining the current state of affairs, because it has been established and changed without our consent, or rather, only with our original agreement.
The truth is that I see us move down that road, at least in the short term. I hope that when we decide, not erremos.
And it's not too late.
