The Coronavirus crisis has once again demonstrated that one of the greatest defects of our democracy is the media. During these months we have heard hate-filled noise and intolerance drawing on fear of the virus to polarize society.
However, the pursuit of political capital from this situation is at its most unrelenting in the Spanish right-wing, where we have witnessed a fierce campaign of harassment and destabilization against the democratically elected government, whose moderate version of Social Democracy, which they label “radical” and “unpatriotic”, is currently in power.
The Spanish government has made mistakes, but the partisan exploitation of these mistakes is wholly hypocritical and cynical, since those who encouraged this campaign of hate are the same as those who have been defending for years the neoliberal dogma that dismantles public services providing a certain protection to the citizens of our country. The most blatant example is public health, but we can extrapolate this to all areas of society in which the great failures of neoliberal plans that began to be implemented gradually more than four decades ago, have now been amply demonstrated.
