Who benefits from false symmetry?
Lula took office in January. Since then, three months have passed with countless changes in the country's destiny. Welcomed by Biden and with a meeting scheduled with Xi Jinping, Lula is racing against time to try to put Brazil back on the path of civilization. The mission is arduous, since part of the institutions remain staffed by agents who were important players in the process of eroding Brazilian democracy, namely, a good portion of the current parliamentarians, the man who heads the Central Bank, the god of the market, and a large part of the vampiric financial elite.
It's only been three months, but the dissenting voices of friendly fire are already blaring from all sides, loudly demanding that the government resolve and rebuild everything that was compromised and destroyed during the four years of sociopolitical insanity that gripped the country. Although the trail of destruction and the stench of chaos are still perceptible, it's necessary to understand that there's no magic in managing an economy the size of ours, nor the slightest possibility of a U-turn in social change. However, it's clear that the "Titanic" Brazil has begun to move, veering off course from the iceberg planted by the same old saboteurs.
In this context, the prominence of the Brazilian corporate media is striking. Through its narrow editorials, stomach-churning columns, and the toxic stance of many of its subservient journalists (the same ones who were humiliated, silenced, and kicked around for four years), it has raised the anti-PT (Workers' Party) banner again, arrogate to itself the power to govern via editorials, interviews, and one-sided "debates" with "experts" on absolutely nothing. And thus, they proceed to make biased analyses and conjectures without the slightest basis in political reliability or theoretical support. As could be expected, the modus operandi It's old and worn out, the same one that always praises the conspiracy theories of the far right, which is there to undermine and sabotage democratically elected progressive governments.
The press that throws stones at Lula's government is neither surprising nor shocking. It's the same old story. Its journalists exist solely to reproduce the voice of their owners, and they do so in the best way possible. They are the same ones who open their arms and smiles to, for example, shelter the suspected ex-judge, ignoring all the damage he caused to the country, but are filled with hatred, frown, and ignore the deaths and all the misfortunes caused by the genocidal government they helped elect.
While some only see the tip of the iceberg and the coup-supporting media plays at being the "fourth estate," many have already realized that the gigantic part of the iceberg, even submerged, is already beginning to crack. And that's how the hatred cultivated here for four years explodes in attacks, massacres, femicides, racism, etc. Children, young people, and adults cannot escape the clutches of darkness that still howl in the immensity of ignorance, malice, and fanaticism. The death of that teacher and the life of the boy who stabbed her are also on the account of the people, journalists among them, who insist on the false symmetry between a statesman and a barbarian. Who benefits from propagating this kind of symmetry? Wash away as much as you want, but all this blood will never come off the hands of the people who fueled such hatred and mortally wounded Brazilian democracy. The iceberg of hatred that is advancing is the size of Brazil.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.
