Opinion – Vinicius Torres Freire: Worse than inflation, Brazil runs the risk of eating desert dust

We do some math to see where inflation and food prices will be at the end of the election campaign. The famine may end up with some votes from Jair Bolsonaro, it is speculated.

Will the IPCA pass 12% a year in April (it is at 10.5%)? Still beyond 8% in September? Will the dollar help? We discuss whether a few tenths of a percentage of extra misery in the lives of the little people will make a political difference.

It could be, but the spreadsheet numbering starts to look ridiculous. Can tenths of the IPCA stop Bolsonaro? Is that what the conversation boils down to? Or discussing whether so many types from the center are going to jump from the boat of hell to the candidacy of this or that? If the Telegram press can put sand in the Bolsonarista hate machine?

Is this how the opposition hopes to stop the guy who, when re-elected, promises to fill the Supreme Court with more accomplices, with more of these grotesque, illiterate tacklings and supporters of some kind of theocracy? These are types that will pass the legal framework capable of transforming us into a kind of Hungary mixed with the Philippines and Turkey, in economic convergence for Sierra Leone, as a friend said, the final “catch down”. Perhaps we will have soldiers permanently in charge of the state and the economy, as in Venezuela or Putinland.

These are people who will transform the country into a territory free from arms trafficking. Bolsonarist decrees increase the offer. Trebuchets can end up in the arsenal of barons in the slums feudalized by the militia, rifles that supply the killers of Marielles and blacks in general. That they might arm battalions of Nazis. In Ukraine, they called themselves the Azov Battalion. Is here? Rio das Pedras Division? Adriano da Nóbrega Regiment, the militiaman and assassin decorated and praised by Bolsonaro?

So is that the political expectation? Will a Focus Bulletin with deteriorating economic estimates stop the scheme that sponsors or encourages agro-ogre, land-grabbing, mining and criminal factions?

This is the gang that wants to raze the Amazon to the point of no return and kill or stink what’s left of the indigenous people. They will decimate the forest until the rain stops falling, from Rondônia to Paraná. Until São Paulo tower of headquarters. Until the soy savannas start to produce only dust, like the Sahara, which sometimes dumps orange dust over Switzerland. If only we were to Switzerland.

Plague, promise of a coup, lie, indecency, crack or inflation were not enough to change the idea of ​​the third of the country that still prefers to re-elect Bolsonaro. It is possible that many do not even care about the Bolsolão do MEC, the scandal of the temple moneychangers recommended by the president.

The opposition or, come on, the candidates who want Bolsonaro’s chair, behave as if we live in a “normal country”, with “functioning institutions”, as collaborationist political scientists say. They take care of their little campaigns.

Even if they have the glory of victory, in government they will need a national agreement in order to prevent the country from entering a second decade of economic ruin, which could result in riots and more successful attacks against democracy.

Having a viable change project, indeed mere reconstruction, depends on broad agreement; it depends on the rejection of the demagogic economic bullshit and the undermining of democracy that caused this disaster.

Propaganda and luck can even win the election. But there will be no government without an agreement and profound changes, those that leave the left perplexed and the right indignant, as another criminal hack that the elite liked to bring to power said.