The hypocriso politics and the case of Francis, good man

Pope Francis is one of the rare cases, in our time, of coherence between thought, word and action. I will not cast their multiple symbolic and effective gestures (from your trip to Lampedusa, the acceptance of same -sex love, courage to face the interests of the Vatican Bank, the condemnation of pedophilia in the church ranks, or the condemnation of neoliberalism and the ‘economy that kills’). I only want to observe the hypocrisy of the successive funeral compliments made by politicians. Everyone said they were touched by the example of humanity of Francis. We see, hear and read – we cannot ignore the hypocrisy of the current « capitalists of words » (Sophia de Mello Breyner).

For Trump, the Pope left the Catholics very sad and the Catholics, he said, were a strong base of support for his magician. Autocrat and racist, reactionary and defender of the oligarchs, Trump moved one of the pieces of his board of interests: Good Pope would be Raymond Burke, a supporter of Trump, president of the Advisory Board of the Dignitatis Humanue Institute, Catholic right -wing organization, near Steve Bannon. Burke defends Trump’s immigration policy. Francis promoted intercultural and religious dialogue… So Francis was accused of being a « Marxist » Pope, when, in fact, humanism and humanity were the keywords of his pontificate. Raise bridges, not walls, here is the message of Jorge Bergoglio.

For the European Blicist Ursula Van der LiAR (thus the adjective: LIAR, liar), Francisco must be followed as an inspiring figure in the defense of democracy and the freedom of peoples. Therefore, the social state, the final solution to defend democracies, betting on the rearmament that will only cost us 800,000,000 euros… António Costa, which is Europeanized, did not fail to remember Francisco as an example of a peacekeeper. What will it do but follow the booklet of others? Its only combat is the unipessoal career behind the scenes of power. Our minister Rangel criticized the Pope as a « prophet of hope », in his typical poetic note. However, Rangel is a minister who will never be able to understand what he is social democratic. If they would defend it, equally, the peoples of Ukraine and Palestine, as they are the children of the poor who are in the trenches and, faithful to the Portuguese diplomatic tradition, would condemn, without ambiguities, the genocide of the Palestinian people. What has done the Spanish government, as well as?

In the general contrition, Pedro Nuno Santos and Montenegro binded in the Christian leader their social dimension, their work for opening the church to all. However, let’s ask: PS and PSD have in education and health, in court and other work sectors, followed by the Pope’s social message? Have policies to live in a dignified one in this country? Even friarsco Carlos Coins had to speak, in his tone (similar to Rangel, otherwise) of acute nasality and shrill Made in Cascais, of the words Francis said to him in private, ‘Carlitos, you are a sturdy.’ Yes, coins resists all social and truly democratic measures that, in Lisbon – trampoline for higher flights – could alleviate life full of difficulties from their fellow citizens.

The moment we say goodbye to the Pope ‘from the end of the world,’ the hypocrisy of world leaders offends us. And national. In the wars that feed, commercial or with factual weapons, from Trump to Zelensky, from Putin to Mark Rutte, none of them will never understand the revolutionary force of Francis. To ongoing dehumanization, either because of the obsession of money, or because of technological dullness, the high pontiff opposed the ‘tenderness revolution’. Francisco played the world leaders? As? When? Where? We look at this time and there is only one certainty: the attack on democracies, the rise of oligarchs, stupidity as a global ideology, cowardice as a strategy: from London to Moscow, from Israel to the White House, from Paris to Telaviv. The fingers of a hand are the politicians (none of them in Europe) in which a civic character and action remains.

Still regarding our backyard, it is extraordinary that all of them, to their dimension, make, for these days, of hypocrisy a virtue and funeral praise a cynical exercise of politeness. Everyone says the common places of the childish protocol. Francisco was not, by the way, model that followed. Francis’ Christianity does not exist in a country where salaries are a daily offense, as well as the very high incomes a new and liberal form of social vampirism. What do they serve contrite words, if political action is never in the decisions of politicians?

Francisco, who worked with and for the poor, came to Portugal to see youth on the journey… How brave was it was a Portuguese politician to have guided the Pope in a pilgrimage from the outskirts of Lisbon, for the stations of Metro where the most Soez poverty, whether from Portuguese or foreigners! Coins and Pedro Nuno, Montenegro and Marcelo, what is left of the CDS and what is moving in the arrival (party of hatred, lies and corruption, despite the hypocritical beatice of a André), none of them, in parliament or presidential throne, vote and truly decide in favor of the people who are told of low salaries and the pensions of the pensions.

Francisco inspired them on?