The State, Portugal’s number one enemy
In 2011, David ES wrote in the (WSJ): “The defenders of Portugal’s powers… don’t need any more help. They need to allow their citizens to create, restructure debt and an economic freedom that allows people to thrive. The aid is unfair because it comes from taxpayers in other countries who are not responsible for the mess. It discourages reform, and only defends unavoidable breaches.’
As long as the state of this socialism and the statism of the PSD is not ended, there is no remedy, leftist recipes are also passed on only misery, and liberal Anglo-Axon models in a backward country like this would be the same as killing a hungry donkey with strange delicacies. The state of planned events, and of public atrophies do not change the social statistics of the propaganda sectors of the public sectors of the atrophies of the private ones.
Our main problem is the excess of State. We have not freed ourselves from the absolutist tradition that the state continues to personify by controlling everything. The State is the omnipotent, protective and castrating father who directs everything. That is why the Portuguese are not autonomous. Even the democratic system was totally impregnated by this absolutist vision of infantilizing people, generating dependency, minority and mental submission schemes.
The infantilized child, who will never grow up independently, must believe everything the tyrannical parent says. We have to symbolically kill the father, in order to grow, to become autonomous, and not live in this fusional destructuring for our individual independence, but also for the groups, economic, cultural, etc.
This morbid structure is already a terminal disease full of metastases. European Union chemists only maintain the agony. There is no vision of what we want to be, where we want to go, which is only effective with a pragmatic dimension and broad consensus. This vision did not emerge in two days, as it did for the Minister of Economy, certainly in an almost mystical revelation, where he outlined a plan for ten years.
This State is not only excessive but bad in terms of what it manages, regulates and supervises and even what is not its responsibility, but it is good at advertising for a poor, uncritical and interventionist.
If there is a full summer in the winter, everyone spreads out when there are fires in the state, everyone begs the State, it’s all full summer like this… the State relaxes like this… the State relaxes like this… like two. And yes, you should ask, because no one has acquired the skills and independence to solve your problems.
Portugal only changes when it radically transforms the role of the State. The State is not an evil entity, there is a good State and a bad State. We only have the bad. PS and PSD have behaved in the government like the neurotic who always takes the same record to different parties.
This is also a strange democracy with perpetual charges. António Costa in 1995 was already Secretary of the last State like Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa since 1981. In the latter you can see him ironing, combing his hair, often in a bathing suit, peeking into garbage containers, kissing pregnant garbage bellies , as king of love, etc… That’s what we have. And these are just seen figures of our absolutism.