A character in Rafael Chirbes’s novel Crematorio says:
The worst was discovering that democracy puts an end to politics. That was the worst. To spend 20, 30 years under Franco, demanding democracy, only to discover that when democracy arrived, its first message to you was that it had no use for you because democracy is the best way of destroying politics.
Chirbes is one of the best writers currently writing in Spain.
OK, I do not understand this at all. When I was in Poland in 1975-76, everyone I knew avoided politics because it was not safe unless you were a Party member. This suggests that the opposite would be true.
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Spain, like the US, has a 2-party system that presents no actual choice to anybody. At least, during the dictatorship there were clandestine parties that presented some variety of opinion.
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I don’t think our two party system offers no real choice. We have a far right party and a center right party. Of course I am a member of the Green Party, which is center left.
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What you say is undeniably true. And both parties seem moving to the right.
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