That Brazilians are tired of politics and politicians – in the plural! – It's not much new. The endless sequence of scandals that goes from the most unknown councilor to the most well-known senators, adds to the total disregard on the part of these governments towards the main problems that afflict the Brazilian population.
But, as we are in an election year, We cannot have a reality like this printed in the media. For this, the politicians – makeup professionals – increasingly resort to a series of subterfuges that transfigure reality, and present a much better world. I don't know if the dear reader also understands this., but that's like saying we're stupid and, mostly ignorant. “Violence is stable and, in some cases, it even decreases.”, say the politicians, and look for statistics to prove what they say. Either they don't live in Brazil or they haven't yet realized that we are tired of making stupid police reports that do nothing other than increase the amount of paper in the bureaucracy. How many of us have been robbed when stopping at a traffic light or had our cars broken into to steal the radio??
As the poet would say, "suddenly, no more than suddenly” a ridiculous dengue epidemic invades what would be the most urbanized area in Brazil and in the end we end up discovering that we are to blame for all of this. I then ask: if two years ago we had the same small plant dishes with stagnant water and there was no dengue epidemic, because right now we are to blame? Of course, we have our share of responsibility for this., but how can we be responsible for public health issues? When the first cases appeared, because no one came forward to explain what was happening and what we should do?
After going through a privatization process that promised paradises, we see some politicians go on television, with a pale face, say that we were on the verge of going through “blackouts”” because we did not have the energy production necessary to meet the demand. Again who was found guilty? Exactly! N & COLLISION s, the citizens, that we would be wasting electrical energy. But they weren't satisfied with that and now they're still trying to pass a law that will hold us responsible for the profits that companies didn't make..
The absurdities go far beyond those I mention, and I'm sure the dear reader would have an endless list to add, taken from your everyday life. But that's not the point now, What matters is to draw citizens' attention to the total inversion of values and responsibilities that we are now going through: in theory we should pay taxes and vote for politicians and they would take care of managing public affairs; but what we see is that there is no management of public affairs and whoever is uncomfortable should take responsibility for themselves. But there's one thing that no one changes: the taxes, We are still the ones paying.
We better open our eyes and start shaking, Who knows, maybe politicians will realize that there is intelligent life here, in Brazilian reality.
Moral of the hist & oacute; ria: The saying goes that the best stimulus for employees is noise… in the boss's footsteps. In politics, it seems that the best stimulus is noise… of the population. It's pay to see, or better, continue paying and, Who knows, watch!
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Year II – N. 10 – April 2002
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