Government apparent and real government

The first task of statecraft is to destroy this invisible government, to pollute this terrible alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politicians "

Theodore Roosevelt

Is nearing the start of the campaign for elections next May 22. A campaign in which parties spend huge amounts of money to bombard you with messages simplistic, absurd, Manichaean and designed for weak-minded, through all means of mass communication, public or private. To try to convince you of what is good and bad, which is white or black, which is red or blue, following options allegedly lost their ideological meaning long ago, long time. To try to re-trust that your vote is important and that those who confidently choose will truly represent your interests when you could see yourself clearly was not the case . That the interests they defend are those of others.

Have you thought about where that money is spent on the campaign? Do your members ? What the record 276.86 euros for each Councillor to achieve the parties, coalitions and electoral groups in the municipal elections next May 22 and 55 cents for each vote received, provided that result in council ? "Of the over one hundred defendants in corruption cases are on the electoral roll ? Or from other sources, hidden behind the impenetrable tangle of funding in which even the most seasoned journalists venture into? What favors are bought and sold, hiding in complicit media that feed on institutional advertising, fees and promises of future income, privileged access, direct channels from the desk in the large company to the corresponding bench?

Going back to Theodore Roosevelt ,

Behind the apparent government sits enthroned an invisible government which recognizes no allegiance or responsibility to the people. "

This web of lobbies and embracing conseguidores arrival of previously paid collectors favor of real perpetrators of this travesty of democracy that we call party politics , the very regime that governs us. Ladder matches, triangles in which real power can not emerge from the base, but the height. Not everything is dead in politics, politicians are decent, honest, committed and principled, but his performance is diluted fighting sticks in the wheels that introduced the structure partitocrática, shields against the invisible government has created to perpetuate the practice of power. Or hit her head against an electoral law designed to perpetuate the system.

The tantrum, abstention, the vote blank or invalid votes are worth just to play their game: they are mechanisms already discounted, and neutralized, only creating a vague illusion of rebellion that does not go beyond a day of mourning following the scrutiny . What you need to do is hack the system: to demonstrate that their invisible government may fail, which can meet unexpected results, with representatives with those who had, with people who know where those red lines not to cross. Not voting PP or PSOE, or CiU. But voting. Vote for others. Raise the alarm signal that breaks the balance, that shows them in a hyper-connected society, its system of government and royal government apparently is no longer sustainable.

Democracy is not dead, just needs we return and safeguard their fundamental principles: that citizens regain power, which was torn to those who exercise it today without having been elected. In this "invisible government which recognizes no allegiance or responsibility to the people." It is something that goes far beyond municipal or regional elections, which only begins with them, with their results. We are many , and now technology allows us to organize. In other countries have done . Demonstrate that things can change.

Remember: # nolesvotes .

NOTE: If you want to talk in person and directly on these issues or to follow through streaming, on Tuesday April 26 is celebrated Roundup # 6: Civil Rights, activism and the Internet at Medialab Prado.