Kennedy Alencar: 'Golden shower' masks unpreparedness and suspicions of corruption.
According to journalist Kennedy Alencar, "Jair Bolsonaro and his sons Flávio, Eduardo, and Carlos use barbarity as a political weapon to mask the president's unpreparedness, the corruption suspicions surrounding family members, and the clan's dangerous relationships with Rio de Janeiro militias."
Kennedy Alencar, in his blog - Jair Bolsonaro and his sons Flávio, Eduardo, and Carlos use barbarity as a political weapon to mask the president's unpreparedness, the corruption suspicions surrounding family members, and the clan's dangerous relationships with Rio de Janeiro militias.
Savagery in political discourse is a method. Bolsonaro has acted this way his entire life. It was predictable that he would repeat the formula when he reached the Presidential Palace.
Only those who accepted the "normalization" of Bolsonaro during the election campaign, treating him as a democratic candidate, are surprised. Throughout his political career, he defended the 1964 military dictatorship, dedicated his vote in favor of Dilma's impeachment to the torturer Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, threatened the press, and attacked gays, quilombola communities, and women. He is an autocrat.
In 2018, business leaders, military personnel, politicians, journalists, and voters opted for self-deception to avoid the return of the Workers' Party (PT) to power and to implement an economic program even more conservative than that of the Temer government. The flood of fake news that benefited Bolsonaro was considered an electoral novelty, not a crime against democracy.
It's also curious to think that Minister Sergio Moro (Justice) is a victim of a very active "bubble" of radical Bolsonaro supporters on the internet. Moro encouraged the growth of this bubble. When he was a judge, the now-minister helped create the monster that could devour him, just as journalists who are now astonished by the modus operandi of the President of the Republic did.
Shortly before Carnival, Fabrício Queiroz, former parliamentary aide to Flávio Bolsonaro, gave the following explanation to the Public Prosecutor's Office: He took money from legally employed staff in the office of the then state deputy to informally hire more aides to work for Flávio Bolsonaro.
He confesses to one crime to cover up suspicion of another: misappropriation of salaries from employees of the Rio de Janeiro State Assembly. By Lava Jato standards, the weakness of this justification would have already triggered a series of requests for temporary and preventive arrests of Fabrício Queiroz, his family members, and employees involved.
What did the Bolsonaro clan do? They used barbarity as a political weapon to divert attention from a corruption accusation against Flávio Bolsonaro, now a senator for the PSL party in Rio de Janeiro.
In tweets written mostly in broken Portuguese, councilman Carlos Bolsonaro (PSC-RJ) opened fire, especially against the press.
On Twitter, federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL) acted like a moral monster, disrespecting the grief of grandfather Lula, who had lost his 7-year-old grandson Arthur.
On the same social network, the President of the Republic published a scatological video in reaction to the criticism and insults he received during Carnival celebrations. He took an isolated and irrelevant event to generalize and denigrate our biggest popular festival. A President of the Republic cannot do this to a cultural and tourist asset of the country. He damaged Brazil's image in the eyes of the world.
On the "CBN News - 2nd Edition," between 18 PM and 19 PM, there will be a more detailed analysis of this topic.
In short, the Bolsonaro family uses social media to avoid explaining the loss of market share to the United States, which will sell more meat and soybeans to China. The president also avoids addressing the complete lack of direction in political maneuvering in general and in the pension reform in particular. Deliberately, the clan downplays the blunders of ministers who are not up to the task of their positions.
In public debate, those who can dictate the agenda have the advantage. Bolsonaro and his sons hide their unpreparedness for power with a cloud of tweets that places the "golden shower" incident at the center of public debate, relegating issues of national interest to the background. They also appeal to that original core of Bolsonarism, which only offers the country social regression and political fundamentalism.