Pedro Sánchez and socialist corruption, a cocktail for creating anti-democrats

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In other countries, including Portugal last week, governments have fallen due to much smaller scandals than the multiple corruption cases affecting the Spanish Socialists. However, no minister resigns here. Unlike what happened in Portugal, Sánchez doesn't even plan to submit to a vote of confidence, and in fact, a few weeks ago he arranged a colossal robbery to avoid submitting to that procedure, paying for the support of his separatist partners with the money of all Spaniards: yet another case of corruption.

This way of understanding politics does enormous damage to democracy in Spain, as it breaks the faith of millions of citizens in democratic institutions. The fact that laws are not equal for everyone and that politicians enjoy impunity for committing crimes is something that seriously erodes democracy and causes Spaniards to lose confidence in the rule of law.

Sánchez knows this, but he doesn't care. For him, democracy is this: he and his people are above the law and control all institutions as if this were a one-party dictatorship. However, for millions of Spaniards who do not have PSOE membership cards and do not vote for that party, Sánchez's corruption regime is becoming a source of scandal, aggravated by the fact that the Socialists barely see any punishment in the electoral polls for all the corruption cases affecting them, which they shamelessly attempt to resolve by harassing judges and the media, just as Venezuelan socialism has done.

The greatest damage caused by this corrupt understanding of power is that which is inflicted on the youngest. How can you convince a teenager that democracy is the best system when they see everything that is happening? How can you convey to those with less life experience that this circus of political corruption is not democracy, but its antithesis? Sánchez and his corrupt regime are a cocktail for creating anti-democrats, to convey the message that democracy is a failed system unless you are a socialist, because then you can benefit from it at the expense of others.

The fight against socialist corruption in Spain is more serious than a party problem. We are no longer talking about a mere problem for which the parliamentary opposition must act to expose its rivals. What is at stake in Spain is the credibility of the democratic system and its capacity to confront abuses of power like those Sánchez is committing.

There's no point in talking about how good democracy is if it doesn't act against aspiring autocrats like this socialist corrupt leader. Opposition to socialism in Spain is no longer merely an ideological issue, but a democratic necessity, because just as happened before in Venezuela, socialism is liquidating democracy in Spain in the most lethal way: destroying its prestige and credibility.

If the Spanish people want to regenerate their democracy, if they want to regain faith in a model of peaceful coexistence that looks after minorities and protects us from abuses of power, the challenge they face is to oppose socialism and demand a limited state in which politicians are subject to rigorous public control. Any other path will be a shortcut to returning to the current situation in a few years, with the disadvantage of having transmitted to an entire generation of Spaniards the sad idea that democracy has failed, which is the idea that some are already assuming and which explains, in part, why there are more and more admirers of tyrants of different stripes.

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