Political bipartidism and soccer

This is an example of how human stupidity works. Spain is a country where people are experts on ruining excellent opportunities to excel (Before nationalistic heat starts blooming among readers from Spain, I have to say that I'm originally from Spain). In 1977, the newly pro-democracy government allowed for a system that allowed a multitude of parties to be contenders in the political race (about the the Spanish electoral system and the application of the D’Hondt method I may talk in the future). Now, any legal political party can run, but in reality, only two parties PSOE and PP have any chance of winning the elections. Spain has ruined in a little over 30 years the opportunity of having a country with a wide representation of political ideas. In exchange, we are stuck with two sides of the same coin, where a few corporations and "Lords" control the country, represented by half-wit politicians.

The analogy with soccer lays in the boring Spanish La Liga, the strongest league in the world according to FIFA. In the last few years, the difference between the two soccer giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the rest of the teams has grown so large that world-class teams as Valencia, Sevilla, or Villareal, or historic teams as Athletic de Bilbao or Atletico de Madrid, talk only about the possibility of finishing third in the so called“other Liga”. (I reserve another post to talk about the share of television revenues among the Spanish teams)

As in politics, people who stop for a second to think about the situation, do not want to have bipartisan systems like these. However, if you do not care too much about politics or soccer, you will try to establish an alliance with one of the powerful sides, no matter how little they have in common with your own conception of politics or soccer. I am not implying that only people that do not have the capacity for deeply analyzing different situations support these two parties or these two teams but, definitely, they make for a high percentage of their mass support.