The approval of the federal budget last week, with an increase in the party fund through which parliamentarians build up their resources and power while the country depletes, was another strong sign that Brazil’s political system has been adjusted to benefit and perpetuate them. – instead of being updated. as expected in the last election.

There are periods of uncertainty in history when courage is required and democracy seems to be put to the test.

After the end of the military dictatorship, the return to the rule of law, complete re-democratization, economic stability and concern for the advancement of social justice, we are faced with a deep crisis. And watch the return of ancient ghosts.

A moment of tension makes you wonder what is wrong, it is us or the system – especially our civil constitution or, even better, our democracy. And what is the way out of this wide, universal and unlimited trap in which politics and economics mix.

Brazilian democracy does not seem to have resolved past divisions and the forces that have led to clashes in the past. On the contrary, he allowed the growth of systemic corruption, which broke the state and caused outrage. Social divisions have intensified even more in an era when virtual media exposes human differences in open and everyday conflict.

The average Brazilian finds himself penniless, burdened with taxes and obligations, and trapped between two aggressive, intolerant and oppressive political factions.

On the one hand, the PT grew up in the years when it used the social machine for its party machine, with its power project that uses democratic means only when they are in its favor.

On the other hand, the old oligarchies that have always enjoyed the symbiosis of Tupiniquim capitalism with a public safe. And his current representative, who last week suffered from intestinal constipation, which made many sick for his inability to return to the Palácio do Planalto.

The origins of the power of both factions are different. The political elite has long been rooted in the power machine, the heir to the former slave aristocracy and the savage of primitive Brazilian capitalism who used the “Chambers of Good People” to support their businesses.

He uses the social machine to perpetuate his power, fund companies and political campaigns to continue his occupation of state branches, especially in the legislature. Thus, the old oligarchies have adapted to democracy in the modern era and have maintained their status quo.

PT is the result of a different phenomenon, somewhat less archaic, but also old in the history of democracy in Brazil. For the executive, first and foremost, democratic voting has enabled groups to come to power that, even minorities in society, can momentarily be elected to key positions through populist and demagogic discourse and a position of being able to negotiate agreements and maneuver for growth.

They give the impression that they represent the majority and want to govern for everyone, especially the poorest, when in reality they want to implement the political projects of a minority, if not a charismatic leader: the classic demagogue.

This agreement to use the Brazilian state to speed up metabolism led to a huge standard deviation with an ideological upheaval of the state apparatus and a collapse of public morale with disastrous consequences for the country.

However, the problem is not democracy. Before being convicted in the courts, the actions of the governors had to be blocked in the federal administration. This is the problem of the lack of state control over itself, which has existed since the days of colonial Brazil, when there was a chief ombudsman who ruled even the wealthy and omnipotent planters under the auspices of the Portuguese crown.

The parties cannot dispose of the state at their own discretion. This is lacking in federal administration legislation and effective anti-corruption systems to prevent or suppress it once it is established.

The political crisis remains. She, too, is not a child of the new Brazilian democracy – on the contrary, she is the result of what came from the past, and it will probably take a long time to root it out. It doesn’t matter that Justice is after its elements. The foundations of the system have not collapsed. The forces in battle are still alive.

The collapse of Lava Yato and the economic crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, left few options and gave strength to radicals who positioned themselves as the strongest cure for great diseases.

The Brazilians, surrounded by antagonism side by side, would like to get rid of the Greeks and Trojans today in direct confrontation. Those who are not on one side or the other would simply like to live in peace, in a democratic way and with a state oriented towards the collective good, and not on projects of perpetuating species, left and right, capable of achieving a goal. violence.

This clash, as long as it lasts, leads Brazil off the path of progress, which, as our history has shown, is fundamentally dependent on stability. Today it is clear that there is only one first step towards this. structural political reform to make democracy more effective and legitimate, and not appeal to the saviors of the motherland who change little except. stones that play in your favor.

Democracy remains the only viable way to put Brazil on the path of progress. No populist or authoritarian decision has led to effective solutions and manifests itself as the protection of group interests that violate the principle of equality, legitimizing it with a discourse of intolerance.

In this way, we hope, just as we have achieved other achievements, eventually eradicate these old forces that are pulling us back and preventing us from collectively striving for the future that we all envision.

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