I agree.

That's only going to happen when Spain changes. We were on track in 2011.

Those were tough years, the worst of the great recession compounded with a national housing crisis. We had a spike of people killing themselves at the prospect of being evicted from their homes, unemployment over 25%. But then some stirrings of hope appeared. Spanish firefighters were an inspiration to the world with their slogan "we rescue people, not banks". Madrid's Indignados inspired Occupy movements worldwide, including Occupy Wall Street. That morphed into the 15M movement, which in turn transformed into Podemos.

Then, in 2015, Podemos blocked the formation of a center-left government with their demand of an independence referendum in Catalonia, which PSOE could not agree to since it was illegal.

They should have dropped that demand, form a coalition government, and begin the long, hard work of reforming Spanish legislation to make progress on that front. Small, gradual, steady progress that lasts.

Instead, we went to a new general election. Lefties were disappointed that leftie parties could never agree and didn't vote and the right wingers won it. And so the opportunity for change in Spain was squandered.