Tijolaço describes the "disgust" of the impeachment session.
"It's difficult to convince our guts to quietly watch as so many who benefited from ministries, power, and prestige in the Dilma and Lula governments stab them and democracy in the back for the bowl of lentils Temer will give them," writes journalist Fernando Brito, regarding the revulsion he felt yesterday while watching the Senate session that indicted Dilma.
By Fernando Brito, from brick - As we get older and politics has passed before our eyes with all its illusions and fantasies, we are not deluded, or at least not as deluded, because we do not lose the desire for things to turn out correctly and result in what is best for Brazil.
Now is not the time to analyze the mistakes and shortcomings of the PT, Lula, and Dilma.
None could have been as serious as accepting the logic of the adversary and believing that the Brazilian ruling class could accept an inclusive development model through persuasion rather than through pressure from the working masses, left at the mercy of remote control and moralistic discourse.
Yesterday, even though I caught a glimpse of that monstrous "trial" session out of the corner of my eye, I ended up being carried away by a feeling that needs little explanation, because it's visceral and our stomach has supremacy over our brain that rationalizes and the heart that tries to forgive.
It's difficult to convince our consciences to remain silent while so many who benefited from ministries, power, and prestige in the Dilma and Lula governments, stab them and democracy in the back with the same bowls of lentils that Temer will give them.
After these events, it is necessary to remain calm. Remaining calm does not mean giving in, but rather not being consumed by the clear and inevitable defeat, although the fight must continue.
I must therefore ask my friends to have a little patience before I return to speaking of something that can only arouse repugnance: seeing parliament transformed into a society of scoundrels who, with the complicity of the institutions, assault the sovereignty of the popular vote.
We are entering a dictatorship, and dictatorships cannot be confronted with blind force.
We're not made of steel, and sometimes disgust, in all its meanings, isn't a good advisor to our perspective.
I'll be back to the blog shortly, as soon as my body and mind allow.