Is the 2013 bus still on the road?
We need to enter the field focused and united, with or without manifestos, paying attention to the movements that impact our lives, because remaining indifferent leaves room for the anti-democratic camp to demarcate its territory and imprison us within its limits.
Lula and Dilma did not sign the 'We Are Together' Manifesto because they saw it as an opportunity to alter the location of the crime that victimized democracy, to shift the focus away from the coup plotters who brought a fascist to power, and to bury history.
Former President Lula said that we can't just hop on the first bus that comes along. I agree, and I remember that in 2013, we got on a bus, paid a R$0,20 fare increase, and to this day we don't know who was driving it.
When I watch demonstrations without leaders, without political parties, with the historic banners of the great demonstrations, like the Diretas Já movement, being replaced by the colors of soccer teams, I get the feeling that I've already been on that bus and didn't like the ride.
During the journey, I had the feeling that I was being used as a guinea pig in an experiment that would plunder our natural and cultural heritage. And, in fact, that is what happened with the parliamentary coup of 2016.
We need to enter the field focused and united, with or without manifestos, paying attention to the movements that impact our lives, because remaining indifferent leaves room for the anti-democratic camp to demarcate its territory and imprison us within its limits.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.