I didn’t want to talk about politics, but it’s simply impossible. People seem blind and manipulated.
What I’m writing is intended to continue what I started during the last two electoral elections in my country, Spain.
Ten years have passed, and it’s not just that things are the same; they’ve actually gotten worse.
Everything public works poorly; the mismanagement is so shameful that one should be embarrassed to want to become a politician.
We have two ways to end politicians and manage differently: either no one wants to become a politician anymore, or the people oust them.
Politicians were invented to give us quality of life, as I stated in another post.
Do you believe you have the quality of life you deserve after all the hours you put in working? Getting used to it is one thing, but seeing it as normal to work at least eight hours a day until retirement or death, from my perspective, means giving too much of your life to the economic system we live in.
Right now, in my view from the outside, the citizens’ quality of life is non-existent.
Those trying to be independent are crushed by taxes; those who start a business are slaughtered by taxes; workers are stripped of a large chunk of their salary through tax deductions, etc., etc…
I haven’t voted for this disaster in ten years, and if no one went to vote (the general response you’re thinking: that’s impossible), we would finally get rid of the politicians.
I don’t see it as impossible; it’s a small gesture every citizen can make. It’s not something you need to train for; it’s just a gesture that anyone from teenagers aged 18 to the elderly can carry out.
Not voting on election day but going to your polling place and standing at the door. That’s your proposal.
How simple!
Let everyone who is going to vote remain outside, and we can all peacefully gather at the doors of the polling places until closing time. Bring our own provisions, like water, and enjoy some pleasant time together. With this gesture, we spend a day with our neighbors while simultaneously manifesting our choice not to vote.
Let’s keep everything clean and avoid conflicts about left versus right. No political discussions that day. You can talk about family, trips, a recipe, anything you like, but don’t discuss politics that day—I repeat to make it clear. The person next to you shouldn’t have any idea about your political ideology.
Let’s hope the next election isn’t on a windy, rainy, and snowy day!!! Haha. Still, we’d go anyway. We couldn’t be in a worse situation.
Who would vote, the politicians? How many of them are there? What percentage do they represent of the entire population? One percent, two percent? With such a low participation rate, do they still have the audacity to govern?
Come on, if they can keep going with just 2%, then I confirm we are deaf, blind, and manipulated.
I have seen it throughout my life as I travel and learn different perspectives; I see that in Spain rather than improving, things are getting worse, and I dare say that other European countries are going through the same issues due to their political systems.
They pit left against right, workers against employers, and in the end, you aren’t realizing that while they play their games, you’re the one paying their salaries and beyond.
You’re not seeing that we don’t need representatives to vote on laws. The Congress of Deputies—what a waste of money.
In the past, there was no technology, so they had to create a place to vote on laws and debate ideas, but now it’s absurd. With blockchain, mobile phones, and the internet, we can vote for laws ourselves instead of letting the deputies do it for us.
Once we engage in this (crazy, utopian, realistic gesture), we can start changing things, and in order to change things, the first step is to change the Constitution, which now we can do together thanks to technology.
Are you willing to change the Constitution?
Let’s take the bull by the horns, as we say in Spain.
Spain is being wasted, and if we keep voting for this government system, it will remain squandered.
Don’t you want to change it?
The fact that a minister can become a minister through political election without having passed exams like everyone else working in ministries (who do it through opposition) makes no sense! To enter a ministry, you have to pass a tough exam and be well-prepared, yet a minister who studied History can become the Minister of Health just for being a politician. Bravo! Bravo, bravo, bravo!
And then the Minister of Labor claimed she was blindsided when they tried to include the category of sex worker in Spain.
Of course, how can healthcare be effective if the CEO knows nothing about health?
Or how can a mayor, without proven experience, come into a town hall to run a town or city without taking a test or anything?
Ladies and gentlemen, many things must change to turn the government into the most successful company. They have everything to achieve this; they only need to begin managing it well with real professionals, not politicians formed by universities and marketing.
Leaders should be anonymous and have impeccable training. Whatever their personal life may be is their problem, but as managers of a government, they just need to do their job well.
What a circus we have on TV that keeps growing!
TO CHANGE A SYSTEM, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION:
And we can change the Constitution together.
Study every old law and propose new ones.
Every week, a law is discussed through the media, and then everyone votes on that law from their mobile devices.
Today’s advanced technology allows everything to be done in real-time, with statistics available in real-time.
All businesses do this; they track their figures one by one. And in government, why isn’t this done? They don’t want to do it, especially not publicly.
Don’t you realize what they are doing to us?
If we continue to leave our lives in their hands, we will become even more enslaved by them and by the created system.
In the end, who are the prostitutes, and who are the pimps?
To me, that’s one of the new forms of prostitution that exist in this work system today.
Businesses and workers are like the prostitutes of the state. The state is led by politicians, who we could say are the pimps of the prostitutes.
You work to pay for everything that needs paying. And you have almost no time left for what we really came into this life to do. To enjoy it!
In the end, it may turn out that my profession could be the least prostituted.
Oh! And another type of prostitution right before our eyes is that between landlords and tenants. Landlords are the pimps of tenants who prostitute/work to pay those high rents and home purchases, along with inflated bills for taxes, food, electricity, and gas.
Even if you install your own solar panels, you are still obliged to have an electricity contract. What frauds!!
Don’t you realize that you are completely losing your freedom to earn money just to pay for everything that you have, much of which isn’t necessary in life at all, but we have been made to believe it is!
We are creating a life full of needs that, under public and private pressures, makes us slaves to this system without freedom. And freedom, health, and water are the most valued assets in our lives.
If we keep leaving our lives in the hands of politicians, the pension system will collapse, having a home will become a luxury rather than a necessity, and public health will decline even further. Watch out for water that might end up costing us a fortune.
With these streetwise words, I have said it all.
Cris Blas
