10 We have general elections again, and to no one's surprise, we are once again facing the “most important elections in recent years,” or at least that is what they want us to believe. We already know the script: the fascists are coming, democracy is in danger, and it is time to mobilize to avoid disaster. I will not deny that it is an effective argument, but by dint of repeating it, it has ended up becoming just another tradition of progressive customs, almost as deep-rooted as the Christmas lottery advertisement or the summer song on TV3. Remember that “If you don't go, they come back” with which the PSOE encouraged us to go vote in 2008? Well, that. Years have passed, some faces have changed, and the slogans have been modernized, but the little tune is the same.

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