We know functional illiteracy: the inability of a person not to understand simple texts, even if they can write. Today in Brazil there is political illiteracy of the whole nation, even among people with higher education. An attempt to explain to such people in general terms that anyone who disapproves of the right is a communist, and anyone who disapproves of the left is a fascist.

The great creator of communism, Karl Marx, was an unfortunate German exiled by three countries because of his ideologies, among which he predicted that: 1) capitalist workers would be increasingly poorer; 2) the middle class will be liquidated and become part of the proletariat; 3) increased mechanization would reduce the profits of capitalism.

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Communist Marxists, through their activities, which included propaganda, assassination, terrorism and revolution as a means of coming to power, as well as many brutal repressions and bloody persecutions, have kept the world in turmoil for decades and have caused an estimated 100 million deaths in the past. Easily verified. But in Brazil, socialism is almost always associated with communism.

On the other hand, people who do not belong to the left are called fascists. The regime established in Italy from 1922 to 1945, based on the dictatorship of one party, with nationalist exaltation and with cooperativeism replacing the democratic regime. An absolute dictatorship was formed based on the triple cult of obedience, absolute leader and state.

It is sad to say that the divisions between the parties fighting for power in Brazil have more to do with corruption on the one hand and ignorance on the other than with the right or the left. Meanwhile, the country lost due to lack of education, security, health care and housing. We are floating on a fantastic island of ignorant dreams, and everyone suffers from it.

It should be remembered that social democracy is increasingly inclined to abandon communism in favor of democratic socialism.

The Scandinavian social democracies, founded in Denmark in 1878, Norway in 1887 and Sweden in 1889, have remained in power almost without interruption since the world crisis between the two wars and are today among the most successful countries in the world.

So one thing is one thing, and another thing is another. Ignorance divides the country into good and evil. But who is good? Who is evil? Are people capable of being judges of this case?

Research confirms the polarization between the two candidates. One of them is a federal deputy with 27 years of experience and had 2 approved projects (two). He submitted 170 proposals, including a proposal to end the use of social names for transvestites and transsexuals.

Another candidate who says: “There is no living soul in this country more honest than me.” Of course, because what he has, he earned it by the work of a metallurgist, and then a politician. The rest, as a reward for his integrity, Jesus sat down beside him and multiplied, as he did with the two fish and the five loaves. According to Mark, Matheus, Joao and Lucas, they fed 5,000 people and left 12 full baskets for the apostles.

As the popular saying goes, in Brazil we have a simple man who talks, a few wise men listen, and many, many fools argue.

Perhaps here I am more among the fools, because my concern is huge, with the upcoming elections, with 4 children, 7 grandchildren, although I already know 25% of the world, seeing that Brazil, for being it, can be the path of progress for Australia and Canada, and we are closer to the suffering of Egypt, the internal divisions of Lebanon and the poverty of expression in Cuba. Like fools we all know, only the wise learn something every day.

Nelio Roberto dos Reis, university professor.

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