Masochism is Here to Stay in Spain
The Spanish are a masochistic people. We love to flagellate ourselves with the whip of the reactionary right. Eighty years ago, we had one of the most advanced republics in Europe. And the reactionary elements in the military stamped it out into darkness for forty years. In 1974, Portuguese armed forces and thousands of civilians marched against their Estado Novo and performed an almost bloodless coup. They effectively threw over their Fascist state. In Spain, although there were protests and talk, we let our dictator die in his bed, in peace, in power. We only changed our political system afterwards. And forgave our totalitarian fathers and all they had done. And that is what we have done a gain this Sunday. We have forgiven the conservative PP all the scandals, all the money laundering , all the misbehaving they have done. We have effectively put them back in power after complaining, marching, and protesting against their reactionary ways. Marches of thousands of people have pete...