The synchronized opinion team and its role in the massive corruption of Spanish socialism

Spain is witnessing a deluge of political corruption scandals affecting the government and the party of Pedro Sánchez.

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At this point, after a 24-year prison sentence for a former minister in Sánchez's government for nine crimes, and seeing how the net is closing ever tighter around the PSOE leader, any other government in the European Union would have fallen months ago. However, Pedro Sánchez is not only clinging to power at all costs, but he is also doing so with the support of his parliamentary partners and with polls that agree the PSOE will not fall below 100 seats, something unheard of given everything that is coming to light.

Of course, the party system in Spain is partly to blame. This system grants excessive power to political parties and tends to concentrate that power in the hands of elites who brook no questioning. It is not merely a legal system, but also an ethical and moral environment prone to abuse of power and therefore to corruption. The PSOE has fueled this system for decades and exploited every legal loophole for its own benefit, leading to a situation that is now unsustainable for our democracy, degraded by a mafia not located in marginalized circles, but at the very heart of political power.

Some time ago, someone coined the expression "synchronized opinion team" to refer to the media outlets and journalists that support the Sánchez government. The expression refers to the habitual fact that these media outlets and journalists parrot the slogans issued by the socialist leadership, demonstrating an obedience that goes beyond what is predictable for ideological reasons. After all, the Sánchez government is spending astronomical amounts of public money on propaganda, ensuring that these socialist media outlets and journalists have a clear economic dependence on political power and maintain blind and absolute obedience towards it, as in a dictatorship.

Because of this, the synchronized opinion team is playing an increasingly active role in the massive corruption of Spanish socialism, not only trying to mitigate its impact on society by manipulating the news and creating distractions. It is fulfilling an even more despicable mission: collaborating with the socialist mafia in its pressure campaign against judges, the media investigating socialist corruption, and those involved in corruption cases who might be tempted to cooperate with the justice system. This pressure aims to ensure total impunity for the corrupt, who in Spain are at the very top of the political ladder. Let us bear in mind that the Supreme Court has just confirmed the existence of a criminal organization within the government.

The most blatant case within this opinion-shaping group is that of RTVE, a state-owned media group controlled by the government and funded by all Spaniards, yet it constantly flouts all the regulations governing its activities and acts as if it were a propaganda arm of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). This is nothing new: all public media outlets in Spain play this same role, but RTVE has taken this sectarianism to extremes never before seen in Spain in almost half a century of democracy. To find something similar, we would have to go back to the time when this television network was the propaganda channel of the Francoist dictatorship.

The private media outlets that are part of this synchronized opinion machine are risking their reputation, if this essential element in the work of a media company still matters at all to audiences that act like docile flocks under the daily barrage of propaganda they receive from these outlets. But RTVE should not settle its accounts this way for its disastrous role at this time. Its reputation has already been dragged through the mud. What is needed, to clean up the company itself and ensure that it stops harming our democracy, is its closure. Spain has an abundant media offering with private outlets, and the existence of public media is not only unnecessary but is also proving detrimental to our democracy.

Aside from these repercussions, it would be desirable for the Justice system to also investigate the role that certain media outlets and journalists have played in the socialist corruption schemes, because when we talk about a crime, not only are the perpetrators (those who commit it) and the masterminds (those who encouraged others to commit it or even designed the plan to carry it out) guilty. Those who cover up the crime are also guilty, because they help criminals evade justice and/or profit from their crimes, and that is in fact the most serious role that the synchronized opinion team is currently playing.

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