@EclipseZer0

1 year ago

Seeing these comments I understand why TLDR rarely does videos about Spain. People has no idea about Spanish politics, and this comes from a 3rd year Political Science student in Spain:

-Podemos and Sumar ARE far-left as the video suggest, they constantly want to intervene the market, have American-like far-left social discourse, are openly populist on their manners, have ties (either directly or indirectly) to Venezuela and Cuba, and have been the most pro-Russian party in Spain. Some still defend communism to this day.

-People's Party is NOT "right", but center-right, but this depends on the national leadership: when Casado was leading the PP a few years ago they turned right to compete with Vox, but with Feijoo they turned back to center-right in a similar vein to Rajoy's PP (which barely touched PSOE's social policies and only took NEEDED (whether you like them or not) economic meassures against the economic crisis).

-Vox IS far-right but NOT fascist. Calling "fascist" everything you disagree with or anything further right than your prefered left-leaning party is outright dumb. Even in European terms, they are more like Meloni (or even slightly more moderate) than like Le Pen, Orban or Salvini.

-PSOE is tipically center-left, but under Sanchez it has turned LEFT. In fact he has been recently falling into conspiracy theories about "mainstream media being against them" (which is false as many media in Spain is clearly left-leaning (like El País, LaSexta, etc)), calling everyone right of him "far right", many populist electoral promises specifically timed for the elections and that either are debunked within days or nobody believes he will do, constantly tries to whitewash his pacts with secesionist parties (some of which (Bildu) have ties to terrorism), etc. He has lied constantly and recently has turned populist, no matter how you look at him, and this explains how the far-left nearly went extinct (as he stole their voters by overlapping with them) but he lost center and even center-left voters (like my mother, who historically voted either PSOE or far-left partirs like IU) to PP. Spanish voters haven't been "lied to by the media about the economy", they have a bigger reason to vote him out: his lies, his pacts, his government (in which particularly Podemos did a dogshit job while PSOE said nothing) and turning away from the center.

Europe is turning right and he has made all effort to make sure he loses the next elections by alienating the average voter while also angering everyone else that wasn't mad at him already about the timing of the elections. And nothing will change, regardless of what happens to the far-left, because he has entered a rethoric about "the far-right" that didn't work in the past and will work even less now.

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