Why Bolsonarism will have no future in Brazil?

It is difficult to be a prophet in these troubled times, but from what I know of Brazil, genuine Bolsonarism, which is nurtured in the sewers of the Bolsonaro family clan's hate cabinet, will have no future in this country. It will soon be reduced to a political eccentricity that may still create noise, but which is not called to be a weighty movement. It will end up being marginal as soon as an alternative democratic proposal appears capable of removing the country from the authoritarian and grotesque nightmare in which it is bogged down.

What do I base myself on? In the fact that the so-called Bolsonarism is born from the radicality of politics seen as war, as permanent confrontation, as death rather than life.

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Good to remember that the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, discovered, inspired by Greek philosophy, that the world moves between two great drives: that of eros, which would be love of life, procreation, sexuality, pleasure and love, and that of thanatos, reminiscent of the god of death. It is the drive for destruction, violence and sadism. According to Freud, the world still stands because the impulse of life is greater than that of death. Otherwise it would no longer exist. We would have destroyed ourselves.

The same is true in politics. There are times when the drive for death and destruction, totalitarianism, seems to triumph, but in the end the values ​​of life and freedom triumph, as happened with Europe after the tragedy of the Second World War.

There are countries that were always more inclined to live under the destructive thanatos and others preferred to grow under the force of life and freedom, which are the keys to happiness.

And Brazil? This is a country that, despite a past of barbarous slavery that has pushed millions of people into poverty and abandoned them to their fate, does not belong to those prone to foment ghosts of death. Brazil would sin, if at all, at certain moments in its history of passivity, of servility to power rather than war.

It is a country with a vocation, in its different and rich cultures, to enjoy life. A country that is not genetically warrior. Hence Bolsonarism, as it is presented today under the banner of violence and death, of politics seen as a neighborhood ring, cannot take deep roots.

I would dare to say that extreme bolsonarism, that of screaming, which can sometimes frighten, is just one of those fanatical sects that are born and die without leaving a trace. That policy is nurtured only by negativity. It creates imaginary enemies and in the end it results from overwhelming childishness.

Those sects are destructive, they are seekers of strife and they feed on symbols of death. Just look at the coffin that they drag in the demonstrations as a symbol of their announced death. They always seek war and fight because peace scares them. And when there are no enemies they are created. They destroy everything that evokes the taste for life, joy and freedom. That is why they do not even know how to mourn the death of the young black woman, the activist Marielle Franco.

Those religious or political sects need a myth to supply their nullity as a herd. They suffer from castration complex. They profess an unhealthy sexuality engaged with symbols that border on pornography.

They cultivate the symbols of death and destruction because living scares them. His vocation is the satanic to divide. They act in the meanders of the darkness that is the realm of lies. When they find no enemies, they invent them. They need to keep the tuning fork of hate alive. Hence they masterfully swim in the dark waters of fake news .

They are deniers of compassion. Bile and stale are the first ingredient in their kitchens. Those sects of death end up like cannibals devouring each other. The greatest morbidity, the best political orgasms of Bolsonarism, are the passion for weapons and for all the gestural and symbolic ritual of war.

The god of that sect is the god of thunder and fear, the avenger, the god who is pleased with the destruction of enemies. Those who profess themselves followers of the Bible will never understand the emotion of Jesus of Nazareth resurrecting his friend Lazarus, nor that of seeing a leper healed.

In the end, all that aggressiveness and hunger for war and conflicts of Bolsonarism reveal its incapacity for happiness. They drown in their own instincts of destruction.

Sexual diversity creates panic because it threatens their false manhood. Tenderness frightens him because it condemns his macho nature. They feel better at the door of a cemetery than at the cradle of a newborn. His death impulses always exceed those of life. Those seekers of death and quarrel are frightened by the meek because ultimately the unarmed strike fear. They only embolden themselves before the weak because the true strong, who are those who do not fear death, strip them of their false manhood.

No, a sect with that destructive and nihilistic force will never be the vocation of a Brazil that, despite all its defects, does not renounce the joy of living in peace. They could only impose it with the strength of war armor.

The two star ministers, the Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, and the Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, both recently expelled from the Government, represent, according to the latest polls, at least almost 60% of the popular consensus. This shows that the Cabinet of hatred is running out. Who are left? Brazil is no longer with them.

Too optimistic? Maybe, but pessimism our throats are already too dry.

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