Opinion – Vinicius Torres Freire: Election campaign of 22 is even more rotten and full of violence

One of the most common news of this election campaign is violence. There are some murders, beatings and attacks like these led by Jair Bolsonaro (PL) against journalist Vera Magalhães.

Anyway, what’s the “debate”? Winning evangelical voters; Bolsonarism’s attempt to erase decades of filth against women and humanity; the democratic cards campaign, which dampened the coup offensive; the effect of Auxílio Brasil on voting.

Yes, there are realities that determine results, such as the class vote and hunger, the influence of new social and political powers, a new regional division of the vote, the propensity of the oldest and very young to vote for Lula da Silva (PT). But what is a topic of conversation?

There does not seem to be a large wave of deaths motivated directly by partisan politics, despite the fact that gunfire is rampant in the outbacks where indigenous, landless and environmentalists are hunted, by bullet, with iron and by fire, that massacre that we pretend is not political. . But there is political-partisan death, there is threat, there is fear, just as there was fear of going out into the street on the 7th of September of the Bicentennial and on the 2021. There is the great fear of a future under ignorant autocrats.

How to do tricks to win or not lose evangelical votes is another central issue. The leaders of the evangelical-bolsonarista party made a difference in Bolsonaro’s extra vote in the last couple of months.

Feminism is a topic, but for reasons that are often clumsy or degrading. Bolsonaro said that he “trashed the ball” when he said one day that he had a “weakened” for having a daughter, to then explain, in his imbecile and disgusting way, that this is the result of a “common joke between men”. The joke: asking if a future father is going to be a “consumer” (of women) or “supplier” (for having a daughter “for consumption”).

It is not, exactly, a debate about what to do with inequalities, discrimination and various oppressions against human diversity.

In short, Bolsonaro is trying to strike a blow in order to erase decades of atrocities, including threats of rape. For example, he “regrets” for having “gone crazy” when he claimed not to be a gravedigger, indifferent to the slaughter he helped to promote at the worst of the epidemic. That’s just where he “went crazy” — the rest of his career of crimes against basic human decency doesn’t matter.

But we see extensive discussions in the silly and unofficial comment about Bolsonaro’s “moderation” in the campaign and in debates, a fraud propagated by the government and regents of Centrão.

What else is there in the “public debate” of the election, at least the most media-driven or the one that yields extensive gossip on social media? We have a radical referendum for Bolsonaro, a kind of popular jury for Lula and turpitude. Nor was corruption much of an issue, despite journalistic efforts. The PT has a glass roof and prefers not to throw the Bolsonaro’s race card into the fan.

Economy? It will be the subject of some agreement or agreement, starting in October, if Lula wins, or will he continue on the bumps of Bolsonarismo’s ghost train, perhaps decorated with a skull of Pinochet, genocidal, murderer, forger and thief, but “liberal”, as some economists say.

Even with the smoke from the Amazon and the Cerrado tainting the air and the rich world threatening sanctions, we are not even talking about the environment in the campaign. Party reform? What to do with the Supreme, which held some ends in this dark age, but is very politicized and out of the house? How to send soldiers to the barracks?

Yes, campaigns tend to be low and the level has been dropping faster and faster since 2010. The 2022 one is a half-empty, half-full pot of filth.