The minister Alexandre de Moraes, from the Supreme Court (STF), said on Friday (22) that there is a “Harmful Political Polarization” In the country, responsible for causing economic and social consequences.
“We have, of course, a harmful political polarization that generates reflexes. It generates economic, social, family, personal, and we need to overcome. But we succeed. We unfortunately have a history of coup, Brazil that has a history of exception regimes, Brazilian republic begins in 1889 already in a state of place,” Moraes said during the 24th Lide Business Forum.
The magistrate, who recently suffered sanctions from the US government, is responsible for reporting the criminal proceedings that judges an attempt to coup in Brazil after the 2022 elections. Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) make up the defendant bank.
who aims to people accused of human rights violations. The decision quoted the process involving Bolsonaro.
Still in speaking, the Supreme Minister mentions that there is a “false way” that erodes the values of democracy, encompassing impunity, omission and, as added, cowardice.
“History teaches us that impunity, omission, and cowardice can at first look the fastest, easier way to end problems. It’s a false way. Impunity, omission and cowardice have never worked in history to any country in the world,” he continues. “All countries that opted for this crack of impunity, omission and cowardice eventually corroded the most important values of democracy.”
Regarding cowardice, Moraes refers to the German dictator Adolf Hitler. According to him, at some point in history, they would have confused “cowardice” com “appeasement”which prevented Hitler from being faced correctly, allowing him to dominate Europe in the mid -20th century.
Another point brought up by the magistrate were what he called that “attacks on the three pillars of western democracies”which includes the press, the free elections and the independence of the judiciary. They, he says, would be attacked through discourses that confuse freedom of expression with “freedom of aggression.”
“Always the same discourse: the first: always the deliberate and willful confusion between freedom of expression with freedom of aggression. To say that the free manifestation of thought allows discriminatory discourse of hatred, misogynist, racist, homophobic, anti -Semitic,” argued the Supreme Minister, who also made another reference to the government of Adolf Htiler, this time to the German Nazi propaganda minister.
“Everyone remembers Goebbels. A told lie a thousand times becomes a truth, and he didn’t even have the time the ideologically directed algorithms of the big techs, imagine if he had,” he said.
