When the working class buys into the rhetoric of those who want to eat it. If you are a worker and you vote for the PP believing that you are voting for “management”, it is worth taking a good look at what kind of management they are defending.
Sindicalismo.org || There’s an image that explains almost everything: sheep surrounding the wolf and calling him shepherd. It happens far too often in politics. Working people voting for those who, for years, have singled out as the problem not those who accumulate wealth, but those who get sick, earn low wages, need public assistance, or can’t afford exorbitant rent.
The message is uncomfortable, but necessary: if you’re a worker and you vote for the PP, you’re not voting for neutrality or technical efficiency. You’re voting against the basic interests of your own class.
It’s Not Management, Its Class
The right wing has spent decades selling a magic word: management. As if governing were simply organizing paperwork, balancing the books, and smiling at a press conference. But behind that word, the same old recipes always seem to follow: pressure on wages, suspicion surrounding sick leave, tax breaks for the wealthy, contempt for public services, and a very clear vision of society: those who can pay, live better; those who can’t, tough luck.
The worker who votes against their sick leave isn’t being more responsible. They’re buying into the boss’s agenda. The worker who votes against a pay raise isn’t defending the economy. They’re defending someone else’s profit margin. Those who pay exorbitant rent and vote for those who refuse to touch the privileges of the wealthy aren’t voting for freedom. They’re voting for resignation while waving a flag.
Then they’ll come and tell you that the problem isn’t the rich who accumulate wealth, but you when you get sick.
When They Convince You to Blame Yourself
That is the right’s great political success: getting a segment of the working class to look down with anger and up with obedience. To be angrier at those receiving benefits than at those speculating on their homes. To be more suspicious of sick leave than of corporate profits. To believe that demanding rights is laziness, but accumulating millions is merit.
Our video sums it up bluntly: voting for the wolf has consequences. Not for those at the top, who always find a way out. The consequences are paid by those who depend on a salary, public healthcare, a pension, a collective bargaining agreement, sick leave, or decent housing.
Because politics isn’t a football jersey. You don’t vote to please the boss, or to seem more “moderate,” or to parrot what the morning talk show says. You vote knowing which way each measure will fall when the bill arrives.
If you work to live, don’t vote for those who govern so that others can live off your work.
