We’re at the end stages of Neoliberalism, hence people’s situation has got “bad, seriously bad” in all of it to the point that people are now doing mass strikes against things like lack of housing, all over Europe and not just in Spain, including in nations which were never under Fascism in the past.
(In fact many of the things people are demonstrating against right now - such as housing costs - aren’t even a common problem under Fascism whilst they’re a 100% natural consequence of the full liberalization and deregulation of Realestate Markets, something beloved by Neoliberals)
This is because Neoliberalism too is a very rightwing anti-Democratic ideology where power is exercised for the good of a few people, not for the good of the many, the difference between the two being mainly that the top of the power pyramid Neoliberalism has Money above State (i.e. Oligarchy) whilst Fascism has the State above Money (i.e. a command economy, only the policies are very rightwing), whilst The People are at the bottom of the power hierarchy in both. By constrats when under Democracy The People are at the top, then the State (controlled by the representatives of The People), then everything else including Money.
Fascism now is being pushed as a “solution” of some of the elites in Neoliberalism for the discontent of The People due to the pain they’re enduring as a long-term consequence of Neoliberalism. Such members of the elite expect that the Fascist state which they try to have replace the currently flagging Neoliberal state (with a symbolic vote on the side that changes puppets but no puppeteers to make it look Democratic) will be one were they personally as individuals control (rather than it being controlled by an elite selected on the basis of how much Money they have as we have now), which is why you see things like news media owned by billionaires (such as Fox in the US and Politico in Germany) relentlessly blowing Fascist dog-whistles and pushing Fascist perspectives on social ills (most notably that the pains the locals are enduring are the fault of immigrants and that poverty is due to the personal flaws of poor people).
It’s just that in Spain many elements of and believers in Fascism never went away, so those forces are more obvious and such ideas never stopped being held by at least a good fraction of the population whilst in next door Portugal there was a period when they were incredibly uncommon.
In summary, the pain and related demonstrations you mention are the product of the currently dominant political structure were The People are at the bottom of the power pyramid: Neoliberalism.
We’re at the end stages of Neoliberalism, hence people’s situation has got “bad, seriously bad” in all of it to the point that people are now doing mass strikes against things like lack of housing, all over Europe and not just in Spain, including in nations which were never under Fascism in the past.
(In fact many of the things people are demonstrating against right now - such as housing costs - aren’t even a common problem under Fascism whilst they’re a 100% natural consequence of the full liberalization and deregulation of Realestate Markets, something beloved by Neoliberals)
This is because Neoliberalism too is a very rightwing anti-Democratic ideology where power is exercised for the good of a few people, not for the good of the many, the difference between the two being mainly that the top of the power pyramid Neoliberalism has Money above State (i.e. Oligarchy) whilst Fascism has the State above Money (i.e. a command economy, only the policies are very rightwing), whilst The People are at the bottom of the power hierarchy in both. By constrats when under Democracy The People are at the top, then the State (controlled by the representatives of The People), then everything else including Money.
Fascism now is being pushed as a “solution” of some of the elites in Neoliberalism for the discontent of The People due to the pain they’re enduring as a long-term consequence of Neoliberalism. Such members of the elite expect that the Fascist state which they try to have replace the currently flagging Neoliberal state (with a symbolic vote on the side that changes puppets but no puppeteers to make it look Democratic) will be one were they personally as individuals control (rather than it being controlled by an elite selected on the basis of how much Money they have as we have now), which is why you see things like news media owned by billionaires (such as Fox in the US and Politico in Germany) relentlessly blowing Fascist dog-whistles and pushing Fascist perspectives on social ills (most notably that the pains the locals are enduring are the fault of immigrants and that poverty is due to the personal flaws of poor people).
It’s just that in Spain many elements of and believers in Fascism never went away, so those forces are more obvious and such ideas never stopped being held by at least a good fraction of the population whilst in next door Portugal there was a period when they were incredibly uncommon.
In summary, the pain and related demonstrations you mention are the product of the currently dominant political structure were The People are at the bottom of the power pyramid: Neoliberalism.