For me it will be too late in Portugal – Observer
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On January 31, 2022, Portugal and the Portuguese woke up to a country plunged into darkness.
The legislative alternatives of January 30th resulted in the majority of the Socialist Party since 1974. The first, José Sócrates, had the country bankrupt and knowing the country bankrupt and condemning the future of the generation that is now in the job market. This second, given to the same Socialist Party of José Sócrates, reinforcing a government that has not reformed anything in the last six years and that is by the same figures as the governments of Socrates, will do nothing but perpetuate misery, stagnation and poverty, in a country that is more and more on the tail of Europe, where more and more young people are forced to emigrate in order to have a decent life and where more and more people are heading towards the abyss.
The Socialist Party, which will now govern without brakes, making use of a so-called infinite money that comes from Europe, will do everything to, without scrutiny – not least because it managed to extinguish the biweekly debates in the previous legislature – to fill the pockets of the clientele that will perpetuate it in the power with investment promises or marginally higher. Young people will continue the economy at 80 or 100 thousand, especially with more opportunities in the country that or do not find in the miserable economy to emigrate through a monstrous tax system, as worthy and punishing for those who want to move up in life. Only those who, for one reason or another, cannot get out, those who conform to a situation – out of ignorance, incapacity or poverty of spirit will remain.
In the opposition, the biggest party is the one that has no idea for the different country, took every opportunity to hold hands with the Socialist Party, degrading ours. From this loser and mole, nothing will expect in the near future. Its leader has purged the internal opposition and has now left the party in a long period without leadership or rumour.
The voices of revolt and discontent transfer their strength from the extreme left, which remains attached to the praise of the thieving regimes of the 20th century, not hiding its love for dictators to the extreme right, equally attached to thieves and dictators, but changing the hatred of capital and the clear rich, for the hatred of difference. Balance made between those who hate freedom on one side and the other, end up not having great changes. But even one would be enough, and that they are the ones channeling discontent is too much and worrying.
There are only eight voices left in parliament that will be the light in the light, the resistance against, on the one hand, those who want to end freedom and on the other, those who want to continue a country and a submissive, poor and sad people. Liberals are the last stronghold and have grown up. At the end of places of silence and a legislature with an economic voice, the single Liberal Initiative will now make its way with a strong and capable group as a single decent and responsible opposition and as the only capable alternative for Portugal on the path to growth. The road is long and accidental. The liberal message is difficult to say the least with less financial literature from Europe – a country where less than one country of people has the ability to understand the basics of numbering, or even what inflation or a jury is. A poor and aging population responds much more easily to primary hatred, to ignorance of the hell it knows. When, and if, liberals are able to surpass the others who will present themselves, they will reach my generation. At the end of this term, my generation will enter its thirties. His childhood was childhood, the life of the young adult spent in the socialist government or it will have consequences for its consequences. For us – for me – it will be too late in Portugal. Our destination will be outside. It will not be too late for the generations to come, for those who are born now and for the children of those who are now being taken away for emigration. For them there is hope because a group of citizens had the courage to fight against conformism, against stagnation and against poverty. There is a light, far away, at the end of the tunnel.
The results of the 30th election threw the end of the road further. But they also ensure that those who keep the flame alive have more strength. Where it is available, possibly. While there, it is possible to believe in Portugal’s redemption. While there, it is possible to believe that one day I and others will be able to return to a country with the future. For my part, I can only thank those who make it possible to believe, all those who are suspicious of this path and who did not send us to Portugal. I’ll be by your side until the light goes out.