China, Vietnam and the most sinister aspect of socialist corruption in Spain

Pedro Sánchez's government and Socialist Party are being tainted by ever-increasing corruption scandals.

Sánchez pays tribute to a brutal dictator who killed more than a million people
The crimes of China's communist dictatorship, which Pedro Sánchez praises

What the Civil Guard and the Justice system are bringing to light are Cases of influence peddling, bribery, misappropriation, embezzlement of public funds, criminal organization, and paying prostitutes at taxpayer expense. Governments in other European countries have already resigned over less than half of these cases, but in Spain, far from resigning, the government has launched a crackdown on those who reveal these scandals, specifically judges and journalists, with draft laws with clear authoritarian overtones, in addition to launching attacks against the political opposition, which oversees the government's actions in parliament.

Many are wondering how it is possible for Spanish socialism to display such impunity and this absolute lack of shame in the face of scandals that in any other country would have meant the fall of the entire government and the absolute discredit of the Socialist Party and its communist partners. One of the reasons for this attitude is the radical ideological sectarianism of the Spanish left, which is willing to justify anything one of its members does. This explains, for example, his alliance with the heirs of ETA, with whom he has never condemned the murders of 853 people (including 22 children and babies) by that criminal gang, without any member of the PSOE or any sympathetic media outlet protesting.

But there is something worse and more sinister than this leftist sectarianism, something that sends a serious warning to all of Spanish society about how far this government is capable of going: it is a display of power and a pre-democratic conception of that power, which exists in those countries where the government has no democratic limits or checks and balances on its actions. Some political rivals rightly define Sánchez as an autocrat, that is, as a politician who knows no limits to his power other than his will. Therein lies the key to his impunity and to the shamelessness of his government and his party in the face of the corruption scandals that plague them.

In this sense, Sánchez's visit to Vietnam and his homage to a brutal dictator and his rapprochement with communist China, a criminal dictatorship that he has unashamedly praised, are not merely accidental or an ideological sacrifice that Sánchez makes to obtain investments. Sánchez finds in these anti-democratic regimes a reflection of himself, of his conception of power, and of his true purpose in politics, which is to remain in office at any cost. In Vietnam and China, the democratic checks and balances that Sánchez is trying to eliminate in Spain do not exist; there is no independent judiciary, no free media, and no political opposition to hold the government accountable for its actions.

Vietnam and China are two examples of how far socialism can go, and Sánchez's rapprochement with them should alarm all democrats in Spain, because it reveals his main role models in international politics, the models to follow in his particular way of exercising power in Spain. In case anyone has any doubts, let's remember that in 2021 Sánchez said he would imitate a leader of his party who openly defended a "socialist dictatorship" and justified violence to impose it.

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Photo: PSOE.