Does democracy only exist if the Armed Forces want it to?

What are the Armed Forces? And what is Democracy?

Well, Democracy, which comes from the Greek, means: The people governing, the model of government where the people are at the center of power, and this can occur through someone elected for that purpose – by the people.

And what about the Armed Forces? This branch has the constitutional mission of safeguarding the defense of the homeland, exercising, according to the 1988 Constitution, a moderating power under the command of the President of the Republic.

Does the population that listened to or read the speech that our president-elect delivered today on Ilha das Cobras – at a Navy ceremony – in the state of Rio de Janeiro, understand the concepts of Democracy and the Armed Forces? It was during his speech that the then supreme leader of the nation stated that Democracy only exists if the Armed Forces so desire. But, unfortunately, the majority of the population consists of naive people, carried along by the waves, due to a historical exercise of cultural and educational alienation that will only tend to increase from now on.

Of course, the percentage of those who regret their vote after the Bolsonaro election no longer amounts to the more than 50 percent of election day (October 28, 2018); there are many accounts scattered across the web; these are Brazilians who can recount their misfortunes as "repentant Magdalenes"; who have always, throughout their lives, chronically suffered from historically low self-esteem.

There is no RIGHT or LEFT; at a time like this, the impact could be a major silencing of the general; not those with common sense, and with a minimum of constitutional and political knowledge, and who logically know HISTORY.

And how to interact with such dictatorial improprieties? How to understand the possibility that a self-proclaimed president of a republic of cronies could take over and transform it into a democratic government free from any kind of corruption? Without being imprisoned, as is the case with the former president who was called "The Man" by the successful Barack Obama - laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

Yes, there are countless obstacles, of varying degrees, and the people, as the saying goes, "it's just a detail." The people/public, who are mostly religious, walk every day with long strides towards the goal – just like the muse who inspired the samba school ESTAÇÃO PRIMEIRA DE MANGUEIRA, champion of this year's Rio Carnival: She walked.

Of course, national families must be preserved and respected (as the president rightly said); as well as the family of EDSON LUIS DE LIMA SOUTO, a high school student who was shot and killed on March 28, 1968, at the CALABOUÇO restaurant in CINELANDIA, RIO DE JANEIRO; his death resulted from a confrontation between students and military police; military personnel who, according to the Constitution, should protect the people, assisting the ARMED FORCES.

My esteemed reader, it is of utmost importance that acts such as the one mentioned above do not become a constant reality on the contemporary stage erected by the new medieval rulers.

Marielles, Edsons, Amarildos, and hundreds of other victims within this territory blessed by God – do not deserve the cruel fate imposed by the subversive ideals that brutal and authoritarian power corrodes and eliminates in the name of a pseudo-freedom.