That what was born as an occurrence, the meat of a viral joke, is beginning to be taken seriously gives an idea of the degradation of the public debate in Spain.
We refer to the government's suggestion to reserve the early morning hours to put the electrical appliances and in this way lower the cost of consumption at the full historical peak of the electricity rate.
You just have to think about what the political and media left in this country would be saying if said suggestion came from a government.
rno of the PP;
in fact, it is not necessary to use the imagination: just go to the newspaper library and recover the
sultry demagoguery
that Sánchez, Pablo Iglesias or Irene Montero poured against Rajoy on horseback from the so-called "energy poverty."
It was never known again.
People are outraged, and rightly so, by the lies with which those who now occupy La Moncloa
They promised that they would bring the power companies to the waist
and other swaggering Adamists.
There is Carmen Calvo pathetically trying to divert the outrage over the cost of electricity to a gender issue, as if it matters who irons and not who pays, men and women alike.
The Government insists on denying in public the effects of the measures published in the BOE.
The inability to treat taxpayers as adults and the panic to face the cost of the unpopularity of the decisions themselves explain this unbearable behavior.
If Sánchez presents a long-term sustainability strategy with great fanfare, what he cannot do is steal the consequences of that strategy from public opinion.
What you have to do is park the propaganda and acknowledge that
its policies entail the imposition of new taxes and a profound alteration of life habits
of millions of Spaniards.
Because this green taxation will be primed with the middle and working classes of this country, who continue to depend on traditional and polluting energy uses to survive and maintain their jobs.
The debate that Sánchez should be raising, if his communication policy were animated by some vestige of honesty, would talk about the deadlines, the collateral effects and the compensations designed within the framework of a traumatic process of industrial reconversion, as it is developed in other neighboring countries are equally affected by the change in the production model and the environmental challenge.
It is not about discussing the need to move towards a more sustainable world or questioning climate change at this point:
It is about clearly explaining that there will be losers from this reconversion
, and that the Government has a plan to recycle them professionally -if it has one-, instead of limiting itself to squeeze them fiscally as much as possible.
It will not be free to close the nuclear power plants, as the Government intends in the medium and long term.
It will not be free to charge taxpayers anything progressive.
It will not be free to impose this new receipt model that once again punishes SMEs, the self-employed and vulnerable families.
The brutal rise in CO2 prices is not coming for free, and
it is the less wealthy who are suffering the most
.
More transparency and less propaganda.
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