The other day, on the way to visit what Ronaldo Cézar Coelho did in Vassouras (RJ) in the restoration of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia in the Vale do Café region, I was talking about how the nucleus of political action that was able to resolve crises before they turned into impasses is missing.
There were 20 of us in the group primarily interested in what will happen tomorrow in a Brazil doomed to choose whether to renew the mandate of a president without knowing exactly what for or to place in the Presidency an emerging member of the wing that forced the country to defend itself from the democratic/civilizational setback.
It cannot be said that the paralyzing hiatus was a waste of time. Necessity led the country to reopen an issue that 40 years ago seemed to have begun to be definitively resolved.
Once the authoritarian outbreak has been quelled by the imposition of legality, now is the time to continue without giving space for retreat or giving in to the backward dictates of populism. What is emerging, however, does not favor, on the contrary, it prohibits this path.
We are going to another presidential election hostage to the so-called battle of rejections, with half of Brazilians saying no to (PT) and the other half already denying their vote to (PL). Still, the two are favorites and, today, one of them would be chosen to lead the nation until 2030.
It turns out that the election is not today and politics is not an activity subject to exercises in futurology. In theory, there would be time to change the script in the seven months remaining until the outcome.
In practice, this possibility is not envisaged. Due to the absence of that nucleus of action and thought that allowed itself to be swallowed by groups rooted in their obsolete purposes.
Submerged by this wave, the democratic center has the unavoidable task of organizing itself so that at some point a new generation of politicians may emerge that may not seem like it, but is there waiting for common sense to give the call to bring it together.
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