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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Awesome, thanks for making this thread. Do you think Podemos will be able to maintain their lead as the most popular party until the next election?

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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


The rise of Podemos really seems like the biggest and craziest shift in a western liberal democracy in a long, long time. I can't think of anything to compare it to. From an American perspective, it'd be like if Occupy Wall Street formed a political party and in less than a year it became more popular than both the Republicans and Democrats, which seems like an impossibility... although maybe if there was 25% unemployment. Does it seem that shocking in Spain? I was in Madrid the summer of the protests in puerta del sol and stumbled into a few of them and they didn't seem that different from Occupy.

If they're successful in the next election I could see it invigorating the entirety of the European left.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Looks like Podemos has secured its lead for now.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


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