The stigma of being Brazilian

          In less than a week, Brazil will be consolidated and isolated at the center of global concerns. This will happen not only because of the coronavirus pandemic, but also because of the multiple organ failures that are killing Brazil's young democracy.

 The virus of stupidity, boorishness, and ignorance, spread by Jair Bolsonaro, caused a stroke in Parliament and appears to have interrupted the liver functions of the Supreme Federal Court.

 Deputies and senators, lethargic and catatonic, seem powerless to react to the attack on the vital functions of the State. Supreme Court justices, isolated and without the coordination of a vigorous presidency of the Court, have failed to collectively filter the furious outbursts of a weakling disguised as a pitbull.

 Bolsonaro, besides being stupid and afflicted with the idiocy of pathological cretins, is a cheap bully. He is a coward and will not withstand a united action from those who remain standing in national institutions against the toxic attack he is waging on democracy. 

 Democratic freedoms are on life support here. There are governors and mayors of metropolitan areas and medium-sized cities committed to the country's future. There are also parliamentarians who are reacting to the coup-mongering provocations emanating from a Presidential Palace that has been turned into an insane asylum to house an unqualified madman masquerading as the President of the Republic. 

There are still judges in the judiciary. In civil society, there are still voices rising up.

However, the dispersion of resistance and the lack of vigor and unity among all against the greater evil bring us the risk of defeat.

 The greatest evil is Jair Bolsonaro, and the unified order, setting aside differences for the time being, is to remove him from power. Bolsonaro is the tumor that sickens, weakens, and threatens Brazil.

 For generations, we were a nation where hope and warmth seemed to blend with the very soul of our people. We moved forward, stumbling along the way.

 Since the march of folly that began in 2014, when the opposition at the time, personified by Aécio Neves, refused to accept the verdict of the presidential elections, we have been escalating the disorder.

 The peak of Brazilian despair seemed to have been the impeachment without a crime of responsibility, carried out in 2016, which installed Michel Temer's kleptocracy in the Planalto Palace. It was possible to foresee that the worst was yet to come, but it was unthinkable that the worst would be so devastatingly bad.

 In 2018, we fell into the abyss of this disgraceful adventure: anarchy led by a scoundrel whose sons are the foremen of a gang of thugs. The world sees us, and doesn't believe what we project.

 We've always been somewhat vulgar. The average Brazilian was seen abroad as moderately stupid. Despite this, we built a hegemony of civility to hide our national flaws, we circumvented such discomforts because our cordial and ingenious side prevailed over the boorish ones.

Now, everything has changed: Brazil is, to the world, a strange country inhabited by a vulgar, ignorant, and boorish people. With the lack of care and planning to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, we have also become a nation that is dangerous from a health standpoint to the rest of the world. This is the stigma we now carry; it will take generations to eradicate this mark from our image, and Bolsonaro is to blame for it all.

 That's why he needs to be eliminated. Quickly.