Spain: "They call it democracy and it is not"
What part of speech is not understood? Ten
Angeles Rebellion
Candidates for municipal and regional elections in Spain are disoriented, do not know what to think with camping in the Puerta del Sol and the dozens of rings of discussion that arise at each corner. The government of Spain and the addresses of the parties also show symptoms of a strange disease that obstructs the understanding. They do not understand what people want. They do not understand why we live in a democracy if democracy.
were half past eleven in the evening and already the place was completely packed. The streets of Arenal, Preciados, Montera, Alcalá, Carts ... were impassable. Sun was a brain mass with multiple branches. From all points out slogans such as electrical impulses connecting every throat: "No, no, they do not represent us," this crisis does not pay "call it democracy and it is not, not," At twelve less a minute silence. Open hands were lifted. The clock struck twelve strokes of the clock in the square and burst their throats and applause: "The people united will never be defeated", "now you, you are the illegal "An older woman near me shouted congratulations, starts the new year!
We do not know if you start a new year and few months have or if you only have days. We do know that for many people these days are already being completely new. Learning is round. Without realizing the little brain establishes new connections and nodes to produce new connections and nodes outside the Plaza. In the Plaza and the streets of Madrid people sit, talk, listen, take note, it is organized. The greater the threat of electoral boards to prohibit camping and violent demonstrations, more and more people are asking board democracy. Tonight there was fear of a few hours before starting the day of reflection, rumors of all kinds. But the square was filled, rivers of people panicked fear and each cell was forming a body protector.
Road to one of the meeting, the committee of Education and Culture, a group of youths chanted, in reference to the interior minister, "Rubalcaba have a problem."
Yes, the interior minister has come a problem. The president and the opposition have been out a problem. The political system has come a problem. The problem is that there are people who ignore the meaning of democracy but rather the opposite. Perhaps our politicians
wonder, is pure speculation, "why people write hundreds of papers with messages stuck in the streetlights, in telephone booths in public furniture, why people do assemblies in the street, gathers in a circle and talk, why people do not stay in their homes, as God intended-reflection vote tomorrow.
our politicians may not know or do not mind, what has happened to the citizens in recent years. Probably unaware of the consequences of labor reform, which means about five million people losing their jobs. They may not know that implementation of Bologna is dismantling public universities. That bleeds private educational resources for public education. Sure you know that hundreds of families are returning home to the bank and have to continue paying the debt contracted with the bank. Not even imagine that privately run hospitals are more expensive and contribute to the deterioration of the already battered public health. Probably no one has said that citizens do not agree with rescue private banks with public money. Moreover, you would not have been passed through his head thinking about the nationalization of banks. And they may not have ever heard of open lists of proportional electoral law, accountability to citizens, to consult with the people on the economic decisions or whether it is better to reduce military spending and for education, for example.
on all this and more we consider this evening, morning, on the streets of Madrid. Said the philosopher H. Arendt that when the concepts have ceased to mean is necessary to rethink the questions originate. What then is democracy?
Democracy is what you do today, which began to make the citizens of Madrid on 15 May, which begin to make hundreds of citizens in other cities and other places. Democracy is being together and do together. Democracy is politics. The mission of the policy is to ensure life in the broadest sense. Democracy beyond the words and prejudice, is what is done today in the Puerta del Sol
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