Pedro Sánchez's cynicism: “The left is not corrupt and the left doesn't steal”

This Wednesday, Pedro Sánchez's leftist government was rocked from all sides by its political corruption scandals.

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Sánchez has been lying with absolute shamelessness in the seven years he has been in power, but yesterday he surpassed new records of cynicism: "the left is not corrupt and the left does not steal", he stated angrily, precisely when his government is up to its neck in corruption and is dedicating itself to plundering the money of all Spaniards with both hands to pay for the political favors it has promised its separatist allies. If that is not stealing, then what is?

Sánchez's attitude is nothing new on the left. sSocialists, progressives and communists have been boasting of being morally superior to the rest of society, treating right-wingers as evil beings simply for having ideas different from those of the left, for the "crime" of not subscribing to the ideological dogmas of an increasingly fanatical left.

Examples that dismantle this moral superiority abound. Let us remember, for example, that four years ago, that same left refused to condemn the crimes of communism in a scandalous session in Congress that served to whitewash crimes of genocide and crimes against human rights. Let us also remember, in case anyone has forgotten something so serious, that the Sánchez government has as an ally Bildu, a far-left party that refuses to condemn the 853 murders by ETA, including the murder of 22 children and babies.

The ideological signature of these crimes is unmistakable: ETA emerged from the far left and has not been the only one of that kind in Spain. Let us remember, without going any further, that the left has created terrorist groups such as GRAPO, FRAP, Terra Lliure, Resistencia Galega, EGPGC, Andecha Obrera and the Exèrcit Popular Català.

Left-wing terrorism is not a new phenomenon in Spain. In December 1933, the left derailed several trains after a right-wing electoral victory during the Second Republic, killing 23 people and injuring dozens. In October 1934, the PSOE led a bloody coup against a center-right government: the coup plotters murdered 33 priests and religious leaders and 300 soldiers and members of the security forces and destroyed 17 churches, 40 religious buildings, and dozens of factories, bridges, houses, and public buildings. In 1936, PSOE gunmen murdered an opposition MP, José Calvo Sotelo, a crime that sparked a Civil War.

Sánchez is lying, once again. The left is not only corrupt and steals, but it has also proven capable of killing for political reasons, and in fact has used murder on a colossal scale, as demonstrated by the more than 100 million dead left by communism (those crimes that the PSOE refused to condemn in 2021).

The false moral superiority that Sánchez displayed yesterday is nothing more than a disguise to hide what the left really is: a collection of ideological currents that has had no qualms about considering that anything goes against its political rivals. This lack of scruples is what Sánchez demonstrates by refusing to resign following the judicial indictment of his wife, his brother, his attorney general, and his former trusted minister (Ábalos). This is the same Sánchez who in 2017 called for Mariano Rajoy's resignation for the mere fact of testifying as a witness in a corruption trial.

As has been demonstrated many times, for the left there are two moral codes: a very strict one, which applies to others, and the "anything goes" one which applies to itself. This double standard is what leads Sánchez to lie with absolute shamelessness and it is also what leads his followers to excuse all these lies, under the premise that the evils that the left commits do not matter: for them the most important thing is that the right does not govern, even if that means supporting a gang of corrupt politicians.

The left has no authority to give moral lessons to anyone, and even less so from a government mired in corruption and whose president refuses to take responsibility for it, making it clear that he is willing to cling to power at any price, even blowing up the foundations of our democracy, as he has been doing with his attacks on judicial independence and freedom of the press so that they do not continue investigating socialist corruption.

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