It hurts my head trying to follow your anecdotes on Spanish politics. Not really a suprise then that fingers are being pointed everywhere, my question to them would be why they don't work together to glass Chinese investments?
Logical fallacies are great motivators to people who can't/won't follow through all the way on a line of thinking. See; emotional rationale.
Cats love it. After how many thousands of years coexisting with humans, dogs have become "mams best friend." It makes sence that cats, who have also coexisted with humans for at least a few thousand, if not more, have also adapted.
That's simple. The PP. (The mainstream right wing party behind all these fingerpointing.) Is led by a caval of people with MILLIONS of dollars in illicit chinese investments. They'd be glassing themselves. As for why Vox not only isn't fighting them on it but is instead at the forehead of this shit... That's a more complicated matter.
Let me try to go over current spanish politics in a nutshell: so as you know. Dictatorship ended in monarchy, and due to foreign pressure (not that our media will ever admit it) the new monarch Juan Carlos I decided not getting murdered was the better part of valor and turned to "constitutional monarchy" under democratically elected representatives (that is, the british model.) The 1st ellections were a mess and the constitution kinda reflects it. But with the newly revamped ellectoral system (notorious for its lack of transparency and... let's say "suspicious incidents" in the early years. Aside for having a way of measuring points that is bloody retarded as we'll talk about later.) Suddently 2 parties (which just so happened to have close ties to the ruling class at the time, ejem) rose into a 2 party system.
-To the right, PP, formerly known as AP. Party created by Fraga (minister of franco) with the purpose of fighting for fascism and "the values of the regime" democratically. Which suspiciously was a massive failure on the 1st ellection yet went on to be the majority party on some... less than transparent... later ellections. They also suspiciously erased their manifesto just as they won for the first time. Almost as if someone higher than them in status (like a monarch... possibly. Not pointing any fingers) realized spain might have issues if an openly fascistic party entered the government in peculiar circumstances. Almost.
-To the left PSOE. PSOE was the name of the socialist party which dominated spanish elections during the 2nd spanish republic. PSOE is also the name of the current majority center left party which was built after the 1st ellections out of entirely new leaders which had no ties to the original nameholder and followed none of their values... Yeah the corruption and fraud was brazen until aznar. Then technology made it progressively harder to cheat thankfully.
So those 2 parties dominated spanish politics until Rajoi. Except for 2 regions. Basque country and Catalonia. This is because of how points are counted. Let me go over that: You know how spain has different autonomies. Right? Well the way spain counts points is that how much the votes count depends on autonomies. We have "circumscriptions", which means every province accounts for X seats. So if a party gets those provinces, even if they get 0 votes elsewhere, they get those X seats. This is important because who gets to the government isn't decided purely by votes. But by seats. So if, say, there were to be 2 independist parties that dominated 2 autonomies. They'd actually get an abhorrently large amount of power on deciding who governs compared with the other autonomies. You know. Exactly what's happened. This isn't even the worst part of how seats are counted btw. The system also gives an outrageously large amount of seats to the most voted party and an only slightly ess outrageously large amount of seats to the 2nd one. So 3rd parties are doomed to have a comparatively extremely minor amount of power even if they're only 3rd by like 10 votes. Although to be fair it's still nowhere near as shit as the american system. Which at least doesn't give ridiculous power to certain autonomies (I said X because it varies by province. A lot. Certain provinces like madrid have way more power than others like cadiz.) But fuck me every other issue you got multiplied by a thousand. Point is this means we gotta talk about the basques and catalonia:
-PNV, the Nationalist Basque Party: they're the current party dominating Basque country. They're technically right wing but they are willing to deal with the left if it suits their goals. And unlike all the rest of our right wings they are notoriously sane, so it's no wonder they've managed to stay in power so long. They... They are seriously our only relatively sane, competent and overall not awful party. It's a fucking pity you can only vote them from Basque country really. Well that and that they want to segregate. I don't want them to segregate I want them to rule damnit!
-Tripartito: catalonia instead is... shit. "Tripartito" means 3 party system. It's called that way because the 3 major catalonian parties unified under it, with the globalist right wing at the head. As such while they're supposedly 3 catalonia is actually controled by 1 single unified caste. Which as you can imagine means they've been notoriously corrupt and shit. They're probably the worst spanish party. Even when compared with the PP.
OK, you might think. But where does Vox get into it?! Well. Now we're getting into that. This pseudo 2 party system was maintained until Rajoi. Then it changed. Why? Well. Let me tell you about the spanish antichrist Pablo Iglesias.
Pablo Iglesias was a university teacher who got sick of the cuts, corruption and bullshit at display in spanish politics. So he started getting into the media as a comentator to call it out. The right wing hated him, profoundly, for it. Taking into account that spanish media is dominated by the corrupt conglomerate of A3media with heavy political ties you can imagine why, he was an intruder, and one who wasn't afraid to call the media's bullshit. Specially when Rajoi manufactured his own economic crisis to try to hide his dirty deals. Iglesias fucked the PP's plans thoroughly.
And so the spanish strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome, directed at Iglesias, started. But much like with Trump that only gave him power. And so he created Podemos. The first spanish party to have proper internal primaries and regional votes. This only made the rhetoric worse. Which only made them stronger. Podemos has a serious issue with femenazism, specially due to Errejon's clique. But hilariously they just segregated (and failed miserably at overtaking Iglesias) so we'll see if it gets better. They also have a lot of TDS sufferers amongst their voters but the party itself seem to be less inclined towards that.
Overall I'd say Podemos is like the definition of a lesser evil. But that's not why they matter. They matter because they got a lot of votes. Enough to become a strong third party. This on the first ellection cut the votes in a way that turned rajoi into an "absolute majority" due to the left being cleaved in 2 while the right was unified (and how votes are counted. Which is to say bullshitily) but it shook up Spain's political system greatly. The PSOE now couldn't just trust being the default left. They needed to compete. This broke bipartidism, greatly. Which is why I say that even if I hated Podemos' ideology I'd still love that they happened.
More importantly, far from showing real strength in their unity. Rajoi's PP's second term was actually disastrous for the right wing. Most spaniards had voted against him, and vehemently didn't recognize him, he acted like a tyrant in response and tried to win through censorship and police action, which in catalonia turned the mosso's to abuse. Spain practically broke. And the right broke definitely due to it. And so, minor parties tried to fill the new gap. In order:
-Ciudadanos was the first one. It was an obvious Gayop to try and fragment the left further. They claimed to be "centrists" and fight for left and right wing interests. Yet every single one of their members was an ex-PP politician which just so happened to have close ties to the PP's inner circle of higherups, and they "misteriously" just so happened to align perfectly with the PP on everything they voted... Yeah. So it was no wonder it failed and is now merging back into the PP. They don't matter anymore.
-Finally. Vox. Sorry to take this long to get to this point. But, it was necessary. Because I am going to ask you to tell me how to answer your question. So. Vox was created claiming they'd go against the PP and were extremist right wingers who thought the PP was too moderate. They pandered to the extremists from day 1 and used their rhetoric. But, there's a problem.
Slowly but surely PP elements entered the party. Even worse the first to do so was Aguirre. Who is NOTORIOUS for her corruption. Literally every single person she's ever mentored or worked with has been condemned for corruption. And every single time she's had some obvious ties yet misteriously the evidence against her kept just never being quite enough... Yeah. They might as well have asked Hilary Clinton to join. Actually that fits too well. Anyway. Point is add to that the fact that they've backed the PP's candidates on all ellectoral issues and you start to spot a patter. That being said they're also notorious for spewing conspiracy shit. So... It's weird honestly. It's weird because at least they seemed sensible at times, voting for the right shit even if it was more left-ish, and unlike the PP on most issues they go clearly with no lies (until very recently with the twitter photoshop bullshit when they've gone full retard.) and haven't yet gotten caught stealing, yet also they just devolved like a week ago into voting no on anything the left ever proposes on principle and going even more apeshit than anything we've seen before. So, here's the options:
-Some claim Vox, much like ciudadanos, was a gay op, only against the extremist right instead of the moderate right, and when their handlers realized they were cutting into the PP's vote they told them to go apeshit and that's why they're now Alex Jones tier crazy.
-Some claim they are just stupid and crazy and trying to imitate Trump (which to be fair they did in the past. While also attacking him for sanctioning spain. Because of course...) and as his anti-china rhetoric goes more and more apeshit their anti-left rhetoric must follow.
-Some just think they're literally trying to fuel the crazies into kickstarting a second civil war.
I'm sure there's more options but I haven't heard them yet. So. You fucking tell me why Vox isn't pointing at china. It could be anything really. Spin the stupid roulette and see where this ends! I don't fucking know I'm trying to figure it out myself and up until a few weeks ago was one of the idiots that was happy thinking they might bring sanity to the right wing.
So yeah... Welcome to the jamón fields, motherfucker.
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