“These young people” sitting in the streets in Madrid are actually demanding more and bigger government and an insane escalation in their already generous welfare benefits. I fail to see that as the stuff of revolution.
The Socialist Party (PSOE) has let them take over downtown, destroying virtually all business activity there, because it was clear that while the Socialists are responsible for the Greece-like situation of Spain, it was also clear that the “protesters” were not opposing them but simply proclaiming that they supported even more government welfare and debt.
And there actually is a difference between the Socialists and the PP (conservatives); while the PP wouldn’t be Tea Party material, and is probably more on the order of RINOs or conservative Dems, it is very conservative by Spanish standards and I think will try to roll back some of the insane hyper-government that Zapatero has promoted since 2004. Also, the PP social positions are much, much better. ZP would have had an abortion factory in his office if he had known how to perform them, and spent most of his time when he wasn’t destroying the economy in promoting gays, attacking the Church, and converting the public schools into propaganda central.
That said, I think these “young people” are going to do everything possible to stop any changes from being made. And how that counts as a “revolution,” I do not know. But then, somebody who thinks that the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt was a positive thing obviously has other standards.
it looks like we are witnessing the emergence of a new “Eastern Bloc” that intends to opt-out on Capitalism as we know it. Except this time it looks as if the members will be geographically dispersed all over the planet.