The ideal for Portugal, according to Costa
By António Silva Carvalho, retired doctor
On the night of the 26th to the 27th of September, around the time, when on television it began to be realized that after all the polls had (once again) misled us and that the most likely winner in Lisbon was even capable of being the engº Coins but nobody wanted to admit it, the indirect sign that that was the truth was that dr. Costa, prime minister and secretary general, who, in a long speech without a tie, with numbers, and always smiling as only he is capable, that the great numerical winner of these local authorities, at national level, was obviously the PS. This was – even because it was done secretly, as those who lose and want to appear victory do – the unmistakable sign that his dear Medina, alleged dauphin and repeated winner, had actually lost the election to the Lisbon City Council.
But Costa’s great spiel was especially useful for us to understand what this great statesman actually thinks would be the ideal politician for our country to become one of the richest and most developed nations in Europe and the world. Costa’s recipe for achieving this splendor is very simple: all Portuguese municipalities, all national and local governments, all public authorities – legislative, executive, judicial, economic regulation, etc., and even the Presidency of the Republic – should be members of the Socialist Party.
This does not mean that, according to Costa, we should have a one-party regime. It seems, but that’s not quite it, even because formally we are a representative democracy, although the current PS (with leaders like Socrates or Costa) has done everything or almost everything to be “owner of all this” in terms of facts. However, without a doubt that in its brilliant mind (and I return to the propagandistic intervention it made at the end of the election night), with the PS being a better party than any other, it is logical that the Portuguese can only benefit if, of their own free will, always opted for electing certified socialists, like himself, José Sócrates (in an innocent version), Eduardo Cabrita, João Galamba, Ana Jorge, C. Santos Ferreira, Ana Catarina Mendes, Paulo Campos, Elisa Ferreira, José Magalhães and so many others, more or less famous, but all capable and united in the common will to do good to needy or ignorant citizens, workers and employees in general.
I do not know, however, that there is any country in the real world with the characteristics and homogeneity that Costa seems to want for ours, and if there is one (perhaps North Korea or Venezuela?), it is not known that such type revenue has given very good results in any country, neither in economic terms nor from the point of view of the happiness and freedom of the respective citizens, or in the light of any other criterion. But I admit that on an ideological / theoretical level, and for those who value equality much more than people’s freedom, this recipe makes sense, and its fans should have the right to make their apology – as long as there is, at the same time , the right of their opponents not to be forced to accept such a model of society, including being free to publicly mock and laugh at the said recipe and its consequences.
Be that as it may, and bearing in mind the state of apparent liking, apathy or giving up to which the PS de Costa had led the overwhelming majority of the Portuguese, I can’t help but be very happy with the signs of vitality that a good part of the country has ended up with. by (unexpectedly) made complete, and I certainly include my most heartfelt and effusive thanks and praise to Carlos Moedas and also to his entire team, to whom I wish the best of luck, especially as I foresee that they will have to continue fighting everything and against everyone, because what you will find in the CML is, most likely, a minefield from A to Z that was supposed to last forever – that is, until the metastatic destruction of any chance of a sustainable, balanced and functional. And why am I saying this, without having irrefutable proof? Because, as far as I know of the way the CML often acts with its citizens and, on the other hand, of what I have seen more and more to be typical characteristics of modern Portuguese socialists, I dare to think (although without being able to accuse anyone specifically) that the CML seems to have been transformed into a certain agency that employs socialists (to work there or not) and, also, into a field where it seems to be increasingly frequent to have sections and departments where they are perverted, or even corrupted , the technical and social functions that, statutorily, were supposed to be performed there – and without seeming to exist, or to function, mechanisms of scrutiny, control and eventual accusation sufficiently dissuasive of bad practices.
I repeat here, in conclusion, what I said at the beginning: I do not have, nor does anyone seem to have, means that win, whether as impressions above, related or not to reality. It is just, in my view, a whole picture of highly plausible probabilities of being, in many cases, the truest. And that, also in my view, would undoubtedly justify a detailed objective analysis, and if possible quantified, to be carried out obviously by those with the right.
In a country where, for example, and to rely on today’s news publicizing about the flight abroad of a banker who had been sentenced to prison, it is natural and also lawful that the common people feel increasingly distrustful and disbelieving in a State. who seems to do everything to show that he does not function as a good person – except in cases where he is obliged to do so.