The three myths of the democratic regime

You can no longer hide or disguise… The country has been thrown into a serious political crisis from which it will only come out, in the short term, if voters reveal common sense in the next elections.

Once again party responsible were unable to find a solution based exclusively on the national interest.
It will now be criminal that, in the middle of the election campaign, it is predominantly discussed who was or were responsible for instability.

And it will be absolutely ridiculous if they identify various responsibilities, measure their weight to get electoral gains.
Politicians who choose this strategy will be undergoing a clear state of minority to the Portuguese electorate and will be deserved and severely penalized.

This ‘alert’ is not directed at all (parties and their agents) as this is worthless for the extremisms, twin brothers in hatred for democracy, which only ‘realize’ in chaos, demagogy and political harbor.

The responsibility is, with absolute priority, of the PS and the PSD that are the pillars of public life of the last 50 years and continue to mobilize and represent the majority of the Portuguese. It is a good height for citizens to demand judgment and moderation.

Portuguese political history records and has lived, over time, supported in some myths. We analyze only three.

The first, and probably the most dangerous, is that of the alleged moral superiority of the ‘left’ over the ‘right’. This nonsense has already been abandoned in general of liberal democracies, but continues to negatively mark the conditions of governability in Portugal.

The second myth, which somehow depends on the previous one, has to do with the ‘corporatism’ that connects many voters to their first choices, making them prisoners of pseudochompromissions of honor who are unable to violate, even when the evidence of facts recommends change and mobility.

The last myth of this series is that the two main parties of the system should not collaborate, either at the level of government or parliamentary level, because it would create room for the growth of extremes.

It is the famous anathema of the ‘central block’ that so much and with such great vehemence, defends itself, especially through the ‘specialized’ commentators of the media.

The certainty of a cause and an effect, not being real, is, however, so perceived that the country has only experienced such an experience.
Only Mario Soares an unparalleled and brave politician was able to perceive (in 1983) this rule and his inevitability. It was the time of the affirmation of the need to temporarily put ‘socialism in the drawer’.

It was not, certainly because of this concrete experience, that the extremes grew up and that democracy was in danger.
But, curiously, it was from the moment this solution was exorcised, as true blasphemous, that the extremes, on the left and right, have not stopped growing.
What makes extremism and intolerance grow is not the potential agreement between the most responsible and representative, but exactly its opposite.

Citizens are fed up with media wars, non -base criminal imputations, personal insults, feel all the outdated red lines and unrealizable promises.
The ordinary citizen only wants to solve their problems and are even willing to tolerate that politics treat their lives.
As evident there would now be no instability if the PSD and the PS would take more care of the country and less of their interests.
But it is also true that the crisis will not end except for an absolute majority, if the two large parties continue their backs facing them.

Of course, politics, like nature, has horror of emptiness and something will happen. But it may not be good to see, as the community begins not to feel represented by those who make decisions on their behalf.
The campaign has not yet started and, unfortunately, is already marked by an ignoble act of arrival.
In considering that the last 50 years (after the April Revolution) it was 50 years of corruption, this party exceeded all limits, attacked democracy, violated the spirit of the Constitution, and definitely placed itself outside the system.
There is no forgiveness and voters will surely give you the proper answer.
Strange and, in fact, incomprehensible is, in the same way, the (almost) noisy silence, on this subject, of the current leader of the PS