They DO represent us

    And so I came to live in Barcelona. Unlike Germany, Spain didn't overcome the crisis from 2008. Things got worse and, similarly to plenty of places throughout the world, people is raising up against the government, FMI and such. One of the many slogans we cry in the streets is that politicians don't represent us. We argue that the electoral law is odd and that it favours a two-party system--which is partly right. We are convinced that the greedy hand of stock markets is behind our incipient poverty. And to them we say: they don't represent us.

    Many won't like my point, but they should've thought about that earlier. We've grown cozy and warm watching TV while credit flooded our houses. We didn't want to hear the warnings. Do we remember Green Day's American Idiot? Have we ever listened to the lyrics? Can anyone believe the message became so mainstream and we wouldn't care anyway? Get your 20 bucks subversion fix sitting on your fucking crucifix. Now we're eager for rebellion and punk. Lucky we, there are politicians to blame. Once again: they don't represent us!!

    Well, they DO represent us. They're just a sample of the mess we were, the mess we are. They got there in front of our eyes with our apathetic votes. They aren't more or less evil than we are. Now we want to make up a new philosophy in which politicians are unfit. We ask them to turn around. But politics is a heavy stone with its inertia. It's hard to change with a sudden strike the momentum that it gained with brief, coordinated pushes over the years. I'm not even sure we deserve this change anyway.

    They do represent us. Or at least they represent us as much as they did when we were happy and deliberately ignorant. Aren't we just astonished of discovering what we've become?