Numerous times we have been told that Social Democrats stand for social policies, defending the poor from the rich, improving healthcare and housing, integration, solidarity, dialogue and understanding. This as been repeated as if to point out that anything that is not Leftist would be the opposite: laissez-faire policies, defending the wealthy at the expense of the disadvantaged, destroying public services, exclusionary, discriminatory, ignorance and despotic. However when one looks at the PSOE, the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party, member of the Socialist International and supposed advocate of social democracy, we see that this party is far from achieving Social Democratic goals.
We have seen that the PSOE has followed an anti-social democratic regime. Firstly it has weakened the state by removing its authority and giving it to regional governments. Secondly, it has weakened the nation by joining with separatist nationalists [such as BNG and ERC] in order to obtain power, endangering the common language and discriminating citizens from other states. Thirdly it has neglected the citizens in this recession, creating unemployment and increasing taxes, providing no aid, not presenting solutions to the crisis and eliminating promised assistance.
From these examples, there being many, one cannot comprehend why does the PSOE brag about Social Democracy and Leftist goals when this party carries out practices despised by Social Democrats. Could it be that Social Democracy in Spain has been neglected by its guardians or is it that those policies of social policies, defending the poor from the rich, improving healthcare and housing, integration, solidarity, dialogue and understanding are currently defended by splinter parties or even more astonishing, the People’s Party.
We have seen that the PSOE has followed an anti-social democratic regime. Firstly it has weakened the state by removing its authority and giving it to regional governments. Secondly, it has weakened the nation by joining with separatist nationalists [such as BNG and ERC] in order to obtain power, endangering the common language and discriminating citizens from other states. Thirdly it has neglected the citizens in this recession, creating unemployment and increasing taxes, providing no aid, not presenting solutions to the crisis and eliminating promised assistance.
From these examples, there being many, one cannot comprehend why does the PSOE brag about Social Democracy and Leftist goals when this party carries out practices despised by Social Democrats. Could it be that Social Democracy in Spain has been neglected by its guardians or is it that those policies of social policies, defending the poor from the rich, improving healthcare and housing, integration, solidarity, dialogue and understanding are currently defended by splinter parties or even more astonishing, the People’s Party.
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