For future generations

The victory of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is preparing to serve his third term as President of the Republic, brought immediate relief, due to several factors well known and recognized by a large part of Brazilian society. First, the now consolidated certainty that democracy in Brazil is safe and on the path to consistent maturation, free from the authoritarian ghosts of a hypothetical fascist, dictatorial, terrorist, and anti-sovereign government.

Secondly, the realization that we have rid ourselves of the main figurehead of the worst government in this country's recent history, a figure who emerged from the depths of the lowest ranks of the Chamber of Deputies, to cause us, every single day, disgust, indignation, outrage, fear, perplexity, among other horrible sensations. Thirdly, the renewal of spirits to intensify civic vigilance not only to protect, strengthen and legitimize the new government and its public policies of social inclusion and development.

But also to restore hope: with fraternity, protection, love, joy, freedom in every sense, and the development of a national project based on an economic growth model with strong state participation, capable of executing sovereign strategies to strengthen the productive sectors. As a consequence, the generation of millions of new jobs with formal contracts, restored labor rights, and the recovery of a strong, competitive, diversified, and technologically advanced national industry.

Omnipresence of evil

Vital to recovering – or preserving – our mental sanity is not seeing, every day, the repugnant face of a figure that incessantly appears in our homes, on TV, the internet, social media, etc., as if the omnipresence of evil personified, creating a false impression of powerlessness and profound frustration. Not even the mass of Brazilians, captured in their consciences by the snake charmer, his algorithms, his lies, his cynicism, his endless hypocrisy, his manipulation of faith and hijacked national symbols.

Not even the Brazilians who carried out the mission of transforming, for example, the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) jersey and the National Flag into Nazi-fascist symbols. Not even they themselves – or a significant portion of that half of the population – were happy, deep down, in the depths of their subconscious, to rejoice or boast about worshipping someone they considered to be a myth sent by God – what heresy! The brainwashing, however, was successful, in a worldwide phenomenon characterized by the rise of the extreme right as a system of oppression by big capital.

And there will have to be a lot of struggle and a lot of work in political re-education – perhaps psychoanalytic – if we want to rebuild Brazil and improve its civilizing process, overcoming hatred and recovering those who can be recovered. Even to prove the character of a national front in defense of democracy, the next Lula government will have to happen with the participation of organized civil society and all citizens of good heart, with the mission of leaving future generations a nation that is a protagonist in its human and environmental strength.