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All political parties are now talking about corruption.
The opposition talks about the envelopes with cash handed out by Bárcenas among PP's chiefs,
about Swiss bank accounts, about the tax amnesty and about the criminals of the Gürtel case.
And the PP, with the invaluable help of "Informe Semanal" and some lackey journalists,
talks about EREs in Andalusia, the Filesa and the Naseiro cases,
about Pujols' Swiss bank accounts, about UDC's illegal financing... this sort of stuff.
Thus it becomes a madhouse with the following message:
Almost everybody steals and most politicians are dishonest,
as if corruption was a matter of honesty.
I think that the problem of corruption is a different one.
The problem is that those in power, as social group, are ***.
This *** form a powerful criminal network.
This network determines two social groups.
On the one hand, those that can or might have Swiss bank accounts,
those that get or might get bonuses stashed in envelopes,
those that, after leaving public office, sign up for a big multinational's board of directors,
those that can text a TV host to say "watch your words, dude",
those that don't give a damn and show off their 10-minimum-wage watch
next to a red-and-yellow bracelet.
Those that, in sum, live a *** good life
either they be more or less honest.
On the other side, there are those students that can't pay their tuitions,
the people that lose the €400 aid,
those retired people that need to pay €1 for each medical prescription,
those patients of a privatized public healthcare system,
those evicted, those unemployed.
Those that, in sum, live a *** life
either they be more or less honest.
That is why we can't fight corruption only with transparency laws or auditing.
To fight corruption, those living a *** life, which are the majority,
need to be politically organized to settle the score with those living a *** good life.
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