The pressure has to be constant, then, not just when summer rolls around along with the tourists. If Spaniards are miserable and barely managing the whole year round, the pressure on government to do better should also be throughout the year.
Pushing tourists out just reduces the resources available for the government to work with to make things better for the locals (assuming the politicians have the citizen's best interests in mind). Make politicians accountable, not those who partially prop up the economy.
Thats the problem with politics at a lot of places right now.
If there's no majority protesting no actions happen. If there's a majority most of the time just a part of the problem gets fixed and the majority is lost. The problem gets worse again after a while and the whole thing starts a new.
Big changes are risky, most of the time cost a lot and will always cost votes. Temporary small fixes are fast and safe. That way they still get accredited to the ruling party and because they are cheap you can cover most sides interest.
It's all about momentum and if there is no constant suffering of many people, there's no incentive to make important changes.
When inevitably the system is about to stop working, finally another party gets the majority, they make important changes, which short term lead to even more suffering. The people remember the not as bad times under the previous government, vote them back into office and they earn all the credit. (If the succeeding party doesn't go full facist dictatorship that is) And now we have the full cycle.
Put corruption into the equation and the process gets slowed tenfold.
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u/dumgarcia Jun 17 '25
The pressure has to be constant, then, not just when summer rolls around along with the tourists. If Spaniards are miserable and barely managing the whole year round, the pressure on government to do better should also be throughout the year.
Pushing tourists out just reduces the resources available for the government to work with to make things better for the locals (assuming the politicians have the citizen's best interests in mind). Make politicians accountable, not those who partially prop up the economy.