The result of the European elections, although expected, requires in-depth reflection on politics. Crocodile tears are of no use to the Democrats in the face of the advance, which seems unstoppable, not only from the right but from the extreme right, even fascist.
There are many questions that political analysts are asking after the results of the elections that already show a growth in conservatism around the world and the erosion of the progressive left in the sunlight. How is it possible? If we knew Latin philosophy a little better we could remember the adage that is still alive: ““De posse ad factum valet illatio.” Loosely translated: if something is done it is because it was possible.
We could then ask ourselves what is suddenly due to this blackout of political and social progressivism that is manifesting itself with greater force every day in favor of what we considered barbarism and the abandonment to their fate of the disinherited who must make do with the crumbs that fall from the table of the opulent.
The easiest thing would be to say that the traditional left has lost its identity, it has become bourgeois and enriched, infected by the voracity of the rich, and it stumbles in the face of the new problems posed by the modern world, where the poor are no longer resigned to their fate. fatal but they also want to sit at the table of those we call privileged.
It may seem contradictory that the masses of poor people today are inclined to vote for the parties that until yesterday they considered their class enemies, for the right that today promises false paradises of well-being to immigrants, the unemployed, and those who still suffer from hunger. and they present the left as their enemies.
And perhaps what has not yet been analyzed enough is that this crisis of the left is beginning to affect not only social democracy but even the center, as is happening here in Brazil despite the efforts of the progressive Lula, who struggles in vain for being credible to the new poor. The most disadvantaged are increasingly throwing themselves into the arms of the right-wing extremisms of those who hope to receive what the left of yesterday, far removed today from their founding spirit, are not capable of offering them.
The truth is that yesterday’s progressive recipes no longer serve a proletariat that has changed, that is not satisfied with the leftovers of the rich, but wants to participate. They no longer want alms, they want to be protagonists, a steady and secure job is not enough for them. They also want to be small businessmen, not depend on a fixed salary that until yesterday was seen as a privilege. They do not want to be seen as poor and it is that fallacy that is injected into them today by a populist and delusional right that offers them what it knows it can never give them.
This kind of metamorphosis of the poor that the most liberal and ruthless right is abusing by offering them a promised land that they will never reach is what is worrying those who dreamed of a world that will always be unequal, that but without losing sight of those who are left abandoned in the corners of oblivion.
A demonstration of this earthquake of the extreme right is being demonstrated here in Brazil by Lula’s new center-left government, which fights in vain to win over the masses of poor people who no longer want to see themselves and be treated as such and end up being prey. easy of the false promises of liberalism offered by the increasingly virulent and unscrupulous new right.
A small example of how times are changing politically and socially at the speed of light is that Lula is restless because what until yesterday attracted the attention and votes of the most marginalized, today does not seem to serve him. I am referring, for example, to the efforts that, as soon as he won the elections, although by a handful of votes, Lula took to win over those 30 million evangelicals who paradoxically surrender to the sirens of the extreme right. He did it with his allusions to the religious element that, contrary to what he thought, does not seem to be the only key today to attracting that mass today dominated by the Bolsonaro extreme right.
In January, according to newspaper data Folha, Lula mentioned words like “God”, “faith” and “miracle” eight times in his speeches. In February they reached 15 and in March 18. In April they reached 65, an average of one expression alluding to religion every minute of her speeches. She pronounced the word “God” 11 times and “miracle” 16 times. In his last speech, Lula mentioned God only four times and contrary to what he expected, the polls showed a decline among evangelicals in their votes for Lula and his government.
If God is not enough for them, what, for example, do evangelicals expect from politicians? The extreme right towards which this Army leans, generally made up of the most disadvantaged, has understood this better than the left. Even that Lula, of whom it is said, given the resistance he is encountering among the poorest, that he feels more comfortable on his trips abroad where he is applauded standing than at home, where they are seen and treated He wants to decipher this paradox that those who in the past ran after him like a new Moses who would lead them to the promised homeland resist him.
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