Podemos: cortafuegos, potencia y desafío
Lunes 26 de mayo de 2014, por Mar
Estación Sur @gonzaire
La diferencia entre el Frente Nacional y Podemos es el 15M. Y, por extensión, entre el ascenso de la barbarie xenófoba en casi toda Europa y la excepción parcial que afortunadamente tenemos por estos lares. "Parcial" porque el PP no tiene mucho que envidiarle al populismo xenófobo, machista, nacionalista y meapilas de la nueva derecha extrema ascendente europea. Pero excepción más que bienvenida, al fin y al cabo.
Descontada la abstención, el gran perdedor de la noche, el PSOE, ve cómo le chorrean los votos por su costado izquierdo: IU y Podemos suben tanto como caen los de Ferraz. En el resto de Europa este chorreo ha tomado sin embargo la otra ladera: la desafección por la socialdemocracia convertida al social-liberalismo es la levadura de los nuevos populismos de derechas y del abstencionismo creciente. Sin el cortafuegos de Podemos esto no hubiese pasado. Y sin el 15M, Podemos no hubiese pasado. Pero ya se sabe: "el 15M ha muerto y no sirvió para nada". Zas en toda la boca con la mano abierta, por listos.
La larga onda del 15M ha entrado en su ciclo político. Hasta ahora las grandes sacudidas de la indignación habían sido esencialmente sociales: las calles, las Mareas o las grandes marchas por la Dignidad. Después de la jornada de ayer se puede afirmar con rotundidad que la indignación se ha empezado a transformar en respuesta política. La aparición de Podemos con 1.250.000 votos y la crisis de los dos partidos del sistema son los grandes hechos de las elecciones del 25 de Mayo.
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As we celebrate the third anniversary of 15M in different forums of reflection it has been possible to remember the events that gave rise to a new cycle of protests and with them to an "expansion of the field of the possible", recreating a broad and plural public space for political action other than the institutional sort. Thus was generated a broad relation of initiatives, arising in an increasing symbiosis between social networks, the plazas and the streets of so many places, with greater or lesser fortune, but all of them bringing to light the fact that something was changing in the landscape and the political climate, in contrast to the Newspeak of a regime bent on continuing installing in the minds of people the culture of cynicism, fear and resignation.
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