Portugal inconsequential – Observer
1Seven years is a long time. In politics it is more: error and its irreversibility expand the notion of time, unfolding it. It seems more years that nothing has happened If I opened them if it was a box or a drawer as there was nothing inside. Seven years politically stripped: Portugal for what and how? There was never a response (Is there a more irreversible mistake?)
Silent years, with no signs of transformation or change: reformist will primarily focused on economic growth; reduction of the State to a human, functional and reliable dimension; Health of understanding, about the importance of the masses – central and transversal – as education, always poorly proposed political with the indecent results that are known. (Did you notice that it became dangerous to be born in Portugal because there could be no where?
Seven years in which State authority visibly faded, and the decay of institutions visibly increased. “Does it have a more distorted notion of public service” than the one currently in force in the country? Saúde will have a CEO (what? Finance will need a journalist instead of a public servant (as we are also well aware of existing in Terreiro do Paço).
twoWhat can a historian say tomorrow about the socialist years mark in the country in these years? What could he withhold from what was done to interrupt the humiliating cycle of begging at the door of “Europe” if precisely nothing was done? Money comes, more time is asked; give us time, ask for more money. Seven years without a breakthrough, a trump card, a reform – of the State, Public Administration, Social Security… –; seven years where a lot was left outside and little inside; where, strangely, more died than would dictate to Covid, however hard it was; where a considerable part of the national territory burned, which returned three months later and four years later, leaving another very sad legacy of the dead: difficult to forget and impossible to accept; seven years where, above all, it was always preferred to remedy – usually late and badly – and little or nothing to prevent. Running after problems and throwing money at them, without solving any serious. See the entanglements with government officials, the fatal delay in the intervention in Social Security; the abusive magic trick of pensions where we drown in figures that change every day. (Passos Coelho just doesn’t die laughing because he’s a patriot). Seven years occupied by astronomical doses of propaganda inversely proportional to the national utility they (not) had. The socialists made a party (them) with a propaganda. Case study of such historians when perhaps counting these years, none other than focusing on this surmountable. The propaganda swept away a country that, in seven years, became impoverished, aged and now lives at the tail end of Europe (where it begs for alms).
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