Some tips to be a socialist in Spain and not have to be embarrassed

I have never been a socialist and I have no intention of being one, but I admit that today I feel a certain compassion for many socialist voters.

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In Spain we have been seeing for years the Socialist Party (PSOE) lying to its voters without blinking, allying itself with the heirs of the terrorist group ETA, giving in to the separatists and committing all kinds of infamies and indignities. Yesterday was just another chapter: the PSOE allowing itself to be humiliated by Puigdemont, a fugitive from the Justice, and calling him "President", and all to get the support of that undesirable in order to keep Sánchez in power.

Today you won't see many socialists criticizing him. I don't feel sorry for them at all. They swallow everything the party tells them without complaining. But surely there are still socialists who have not figured out what socialism is about, especially in Spain, with a PSOE that increasingly resembles the North Korean dictatorship in its blind obedience and submission to the leader, a totalitarian attitude that provokes a mixture of shame, disgust and alarm. As I know that there will still be militants and socialists who will be embarrassed by this, for once I am going to help them.

After a long time (I am already 47 years old) observing socialists in general and the PSOE in particular, these are the advice that should be given to those socialists if they do not want to be embarrassed, some advice that I would not give to no other person, and with which I limit myself to capturing what socialist orthodoxy has become in Spain:

• Your leader can tell you one thing and then tell you the opposite. If before the July elections he said that the amnesty was contrary to the Constitution and now he tells you the opposite, what you should do is forget the first version. "Democratic memory" only applies to what the leader says.
• If your leader promised you something and then doesn't keep it, you put up with it. He is your leader, he knows better than you what is best for you. If you were so deluded to believe that promise, the fault is yours, not the leader's.
• If your leader allies himself with criminals, terrorists or coup plotters, then they are good people. Bad people are those who do not support your leader, even if they are not criminals and seem to be good people.
• You must have blind trust in your leader and not doubt anything he tells you. Doubts are the shortest way to be pointed out as a bad socialist.
• You should not think: the leader already thinks for you. You should limit yourself to obeying him. If you do not obey the leader's wishes you will be marked as a bad socialist.
• The leader is more important than you. If the leader tells you something you should not discuss or question it. You are nobody to him.
• You must fight with everyone who questions your leader, including your partner, family and friends, even if you think you are not right. Your leader is always right and should be more important to you than all of them, even if your leader has never spoken to you.

Anyway, excuse the irony, but at this rate, the members of the PSOE will end up shouting "Sánchez, Sánchez, Sánchez!" every time they see their leader and they will cry with emotion as they watch him, with the same anguished faces with which Mao or Stalin were praised by the crowd, including many who did it for fear that the person they they had next to them would give them away for not being enthusiastic enough. In the end, all socialist franchises end the same. That ideology has totalitarianism in its DNA and cannot help but be something else.

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