The PP and foul play: the consequences of having a party devoid of principles

Many years ago, the Popular Party adopted a political strategy that theoretically consisted of focusing on good management.

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This has been the excuse for having turned the PP into a party devoid of principles and which has been filling that void with constant concessions to the ideological dogmas of the left on issues such as abortion, gender ideology, immigration, progressive feminism, ecological catastrophism and, finally, also the socialist recipes in economic matters, with which "good management" ends up disappearing, giving way at the top of the party to mediocre politicians who seem to be taken from the PSOE.

This ideological emptiness of the PP is what gave way, in January 2014, to the appearance of Vox, a party that emerged from the need to respond to the needs of many voters who had been left politically orphaned. Unlike the PP, Vox is very clear about its principles, and demonstrates this by fighting the battle of ideas that the PP abandoned years ago, to finally move on, to a large extent, to defend the ideological theses of the left. The problem for the PP is how to compete with a party like Vox, since it has nothing to offer its voters, who in many cases are totally disillusioned by the progressive drift and the lies of the PP to its electorate.

The PP intends to solve this problem in the same way it intends to beat the PSOE. Unable to tackle the battle of ideas, because it no longer has principles to defend, the PP is content to achieve its goals through dirty play, which is the same thing the socialists do. The idea behind this strategy is as simple as it is pathetic: if you are unable to convince others that your ideas are better (because you lack them), try to make others believe that they are worse than you. The PP and the PSOE have been playing this game for many years, but with Vox they have a problem: the party led by Santiago Abascal is the only one that has not been implicated in cases of corruption in Spain, a sign that behind those principles that it claims to defend there is something that other parties do not know: coherence.

For this reason, every time the PP believes that elections are going to be called, the dirty game begins, which generally translates into garbage news in media related to that party in order to try to discredit Vox, even attacking relatives of members of that party with fake news like one that circulated today and that has already been denied by the interested party. A denial that I hope will give way to the corresponding lawsuit against the media that published that garbage.

I was not at all surprised to see the origin of this slander. 18 years ago, the same media outlet attacked Francisco José Alcaraz, then president of the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT), because he was beginning to be annoying for the PP. A few years later, the same media attacked the victims of terrorism who denounced the PP's failures. A few months earlier, after Rajoy's arrival at La Moncloa, a columnist for that newspaper defended "a new scenario of understanding with that world until now banned from the Basque left".

In 2014, the same outlet applauded the PP when Rajoy managed to decapitate the newspaper El Mundo for questioning his government about corruption at the top of the PP. A few months later, the same outlet launched another slander against HazteOir.org, because this pro-life association was becoming annoying to the PP by denouncing that party's failures to comply with abortion laws.

As expected, this media has also spread hoaxes against Vox. The systematic campaign by this media against Vox has reached ridiculous extremes such as attacking Abascal for drinking water from a river or spreading a hoax about the Legion claiming that it had banned Vox from using the song "El novio de la muerte", something that is absolutely false.

It's funny how the years go by but the same people are always behind these lies, behind crude campaigns that aim to spread rubbish against those who dare to leave the PP fold or against those who are bothersome to that party.

In the end, this is the consequence of having turned the PP into a party without principles. In the same way that it is content to sit and wait for Sánchez to fall as a result of the socialist corruption scandals, because the PP has no alternative discourse to offer to the ideological dogmas of the PSOE, now they believe they can finish off Vox by throwing garbage not against its leaders, but against their relatives. Once again, it will backfire: until now, this type of campaign has only served to unmask certain media and make clear what the PP and its media sycophants are willing to do to compensate for their lack of principles.

For my part, I fully support Santiago Abascal, Lidia Bedman and Vox. Daring to disagree with the progressive consensus and being a relative of a member of Vox has these effects and worse ones, as we have been seeing for years with the wave of threats and attacks that the party has been suffering. From here I will not stop denouncing those who engage in foul play and those who seek to compensate for their desertion of the battle of ideas by launching smear campaigns against their rivals.

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