The vote as Exorcism

The truth is that we love to vote. This explains the high percentage of voter turnout, around 70 percent.

In other countries with more democratic traditions, like the U.S., just go to the polls if half of the citizens. Much closer, in Belgium, vote 90 percent of voters, but that's because the law requires them. Yet the country has more than a year without getting form a government and if it still pulls forward is because, in fact, Flanders and Wallonia operate as two independent states.

Maybe that forced abstinence during the 39-year dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, but the fact is that even the citizens outraged by the political class, as these young people from "real democracy now," camped in 70 Spanish cities, do not encourage abstention from voting, but just the opposite.

And it is because politicians dazzle the staff, since the above is the third problem of the country, according to polls, and more and more citizens to the cap of inbreeding as a breed, its privileges and its elitist isolation social.

Not that the campaign has been far from enlightening. To believe some, in this election only ventilates the continuity or not in La Moncloa de Rodríguez Zapatero. For others, like the followers of George Alart, it is instead a question about morality, public dignity, and not to solve the day to day suffering taxpayers.

During this tedious campaign that have dominated the disqualifications on the proposals and insults over ideas, has anyone pointed out that what is at stake is the real power in the Autonomous Community, which decides who will dictate the laws to mitigate the unemployment , enhance business, revive economic activity and improve our future?

If all that refers to the next general election, why then the autonomic presidents serve as the de Extremadura asked, Fernández Vara?

And, in fact, only when we issued our vote as a rite practicásemos exorcist to ease our political frustrations. And so, until the next vote, without the brackets from one election to another can control the use or misuse made of our vote.

Is that why so much campaign spending so many days of the campaign, displayed so much energy?

In a delightful tale, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov offered an ironic choice. In the big election day, the protagonist of the story is up nervous about the responsibility of their vote, only towards the end of the story we realize that this is the only voter in the country, as a sophisticated and complex computer has decided he is the average citizen, saying that qualunque uomo modernist poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, and that his vote reflects the feelings of the entire group.

In real democracy, despite the massive deployment of electors and elected, the result does not differ too much. The only thing relevant is that citizens are vented to the next tedious, repetitive and frustrating campaign.

This, with all his ingenuity, contradictions, ambiguities and unpredictable populist drift is what senses the movement of angry young men, that not to do something and soon, their future and their children will be much worse than their parents and his grandparents. And do not object to vote at all, but want their vote to serve for something and therefore all changes necessary to make this election possible.