{"id":54664,"date":"2024-01-29T08:55:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54664"},"modified":"2025-01-29T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:52:08","slug":"the-incoherence-of-attacking-equality-on-a-thursday-and-demonstrating-for-it-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/29\/the-incoherence-of-attacking-equality-on-a-thursday-and-demonstrating-for-it-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"The incoherence of attacking equality on a Thursday and demonstrating for it on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that most encourages the detachment of many citizens from politics is the incoherence that many politicians exhibit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/31\/pp-and-psoe-use-their-reform-of-the-spanish-constitution-to-discriminate-against-disabled-men\/\">PP and PSOE use their reform of the Spanish Constitution to discriminate against disabled men<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/21\/feijoo-still-doesnt-understand-why-vox-appeared-and-why-many-of-us-will-not-vote-for-the-pp\/\">Feij\u00f3o still doesn't understand why Vox appeared and why many of us will not vote for the PP<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Seeing politicians <strong>doing one thing and then saying the opposite<\/strong> is something that makes many Spaniards lose faith in politics, seeing themselves constantly deceived. <strong>That is one of the reasons that push so many people not to go to vote<\/strong>, despite there being other political options that do not exhibit that incoherence.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Sunday, January 28, <strong>the Popular Party (PP) organized a new demonstration in Madrid<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/populares\/53492912281\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This motto was read on the platform: \"For the equality of the Spaniards.\"<\/a> After the event, the president of the PP, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NunezFeijoo\/status\/1751645126932287729\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, thanked<\/a> those who came with these words: <em>\"<strong>Thank you for defending a society of free and equal citizens<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just three days before, on Thursday, January 25, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/25\/pp-y-psoe-aprueban-la-reforma-discriminatoria-del-art-49-ce-en-el-senado-solo-vox-la-rechazo\/\">the PP joined the left to approve a discriminatory reform of Article 49 of the Constitution<\/a>, <strong>which opens the door to gender ideology<\/strong> by stating: <em>\"The specific needs of women and minors with disabilities will be particularly addressed.\"<\/em> <strong>Perhaps disabled men, like an uncle mine, don't they deserve to have their specific needs addressed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Feij\u00f3o also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20240128\/feijoo-promete-rescatar-democraticamente-este-pais-defender-derecho-decidir-espanoles_170370.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affirmed<\/a> that <strong>he will work every day so that <em>\"no one is more than anyone\"<\/em><\/strong>. And how is that reconciled with the discriminatory reform that the PP approved three days before? <strong>How is that combined with the discrimination against Spanish that the PP imposes in Galicia?<\/strong> How is that combined with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/12\/las-8-leyes-que-el-pp-apoyo-y-que-incluyen-lo-mismo-que-feijoo-critica-en-la-ley-trans\/\">the gender laws that the PP Are you supporting<\/a> to grant privileges to certain groups for sexual reasons? <strong>How is that combined with the gender violence law that the PP supported and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/01\/06\/los-articulos-de-la-ley-de-violencia-de-genero-que-liquidan-la-igualdad-ante-la-ley-en-espana\/\">imposes different penalties depending on sex<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years, in a process of ideological surrender that seems to have no end, <strong>the PP has been adding its votes to the left to increasingly degrade equality among Spaniards<\/strong>. This is what he did on Thursday, and then, on Sunday, he went out to demonstrate \"for equality.\" <strong>It is incoherent and an act of cynicism.<\/strong> And the saddest thing is that many voters continue to take that bait, for the greater glory of <strong>socialists and communists, who have had an ally in the PP for years. essential in the liquidation of equality in Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, <strong>I am very happy that Vox has decided to distance itself from these PP demonstrations<\/strong>. Unlike Feij\u00f3o's party, the party led by Abascal does prove to be consistent with its principles, both in the streets and in the institutions. <strong>That is why it suffers so many attacks from the media<\/strong>, both from those close to the left and from those close to the PP. I encourage Vox not to let itself be bowed down by these pressures. <strong>There are many of us Spaniards for whom Vox is our last hope of recovering our equality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/populares\/53492912281\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Partido Popular<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that most encourages the detachment of many citizens from politics is the incoherence that many politicians exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[325,641,11462],"class_list":["post-54664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-alberto-nunez-feijoo","tag-partido-popular","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}