For many years now, the Spanish right has had strange habits when talking about the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).<\/p>\n
One of those habits is, for example, saying that the PSOE is no longer socialist<\/strong>, as if to imply that true socialism isn't what that party does. It's the opposite: of course it is socialism. Socialism is precisely what the PSOE does: plunder the state and turn it into its private fiefdom.<\/strong> It's a despicable habit that isn't new, although some seem to have forgotten it.<\/p>\n This amnesia on the part of the right towards the PSOE also explains the beatification campaign of the socialist Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez that we are seeing lately<\/strong>, as if the fact that this man expresses his discontent with Pedro S\u00e1nchez implies the need to present Gonz\u00e1lez as a reference point for that unicorn called the \"good PSOE\"<\/strong>, resorting to a whitewashing that, as a person who lived through the term of that socialist leader as president of the government, makes me burst out laughing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In this blog I have spent years explaining things from the past of the PSOE, including some things that happened during Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez's term and that some seem to have forgotten<\/strong> (I only cite a few examples, because an exhaustive list would be enough for a collection of books):<\/p>\n All of this shows the kind of ruler Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez was.<\/strong> His 14 years at the head of the government were a succession of abuses of power, scandals, and displays of arrogance. It was one of the most toxic governments in the history of democracy<\/strong>, and that's why it astounds me that there are right-wing people whitewashing such a sinister figure. Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez is the intellectual father of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's authoritarianism<\/strong>. His despotic style of governing is a carbon copy of what those of us who lived through Gonz\u00e1lez's term in the 80s and 90s suffered. If Gonz\u00e1lez has changed, the least he could do is apologize for the immense damage he did to Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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