The fascist solution in Brazil

In Brazil, politics has been criminalized in a devastating moralistic process never before seen. For three years, all that has been done in this country is to destroy, to dismantle: from popular leaders to the Brazilian state; from industry to national sovereignty; from jobs to the hope of an entire nation.

Hate speech has resulted in the complete rejection of politics, conciliation, and the traditional dialogue of Brazilian political life. There is no longer a political center in Brazil. Polarization has reached the level of a fight between the deaf. And there are those – on both the left and the right – who consider this process positive. They see "windows of opportunity" in this "scorched earth" scenario.

In the economy, we no longer have debate about development projects. Only cuts and the fashionable agenda: austerity and fiscal responsibility. They destroyed institutions, companies, and millions of jobs. What is still standing is put up for sale, in a liquidation process. And let it be clear: with the democratic political sphere abolished, only the economic sphere remains. There, capitalism will be free from the limits imposed by the nation-state, such as labor laws, social security laws, environmental protection laws, etc.

The longest democratic period in the Republic was interrupted because the choices of the Brazilian people, ratified at the polls in 2014, were disregarded by a consortium of profiteers and scoundrels serving a mediocre, inhumane elite, subservient to transnational interests and, above all, stupid, who regard the people with contempt and hatred, and therefore imposed a coup on us for having defeated the neoliberal project by placing a metalworker and a woman committed to the interests of the people, to sovereignty and to the development of Brazil during 13 years of popular government.

It is this same mongrel elite that decides for Brazil. Currently, represented by those who passed civil service exams for the state technocracy (Public Prosecutor's Office, Federal Police, and sectors of the Judiciary), backed by the banking sector (financial capital) and Globo Network. This is the anti-national alliance I so often refer to in my articles. And when these people decide for us, whether they are judges, prosecutors, police chiefs, generals, or anyone else who hasn't submitted to the popular vote, what we have, in fact, is fascism.