UN General Assembly Meets Bolsonaro’s Ideological Chloroquine

You can not educate a delusional individual to make use of motive. Democracy can’t be taught to a tyrant.

by Marcelo Zero

President Bolsonaro’s so-called “letter of give up”, delivered to the Supreme Court docket after the failed September 7 coup try, created an expectation among the many optimists that he may by some means be managed by the establishments. It created an expectation that he might be tamed by massive financial pursuits that desire a head of state who doesn’t get in the way in which of necessary worldwide affairs. This fleeting phantasm was short-lived.

On the opening of the UN Basic Meeting, Bolsonaro returned to utilizing the world’s largest stage as an electoral platform and privileged platform for spreading disinformation to fire up the fanatics who nonetheless observe him.

Itamaraty, the Brazilian State Division, had ready a press release geared toward reversing Brazil’s present picture downside and repositioning it as a accountable and rational participant on the worldwide scene. It was hoped that this speech would function a place to begin for overcoming the Bolsonaro authorities’s present diplomatic isolation.

However the former captain, who shares the contempt for the UN that prevails inside the world’s excessive proper, threw all the pieces within the trash. He used an area that had beforehand been occupied by diplomats of the stature of Oswaldo Aranha to ship a speech worthy of a mid-level paramilitary militia boss.

Stuffed with lies, the speech started, as at all times, with diatribes in opposition to the supposed “communism” of previous governments which he falsely accused of lending cash to dictatorships (a lie, the Brazilian Nationwide Social and Financial Improvement financial institution solely lends cash to Brazilian corporations) and inflicting billionaire deficits in state-owned corporations (one other lie).

Delivering his speech in a difficult and provocative tone that was completely at odds with Brazil’s cordial, diplomatic custom, President Bolsonaro didn’t current a single proposals for worldwide cooperation on the theme of this yr’s normal meeting: Constructing resilience by means of hope – to bounce again from Covid-19, rebuild sustainability, reply to the planet’s wants, respect folks’s rights and revitalize the United Nations.

In spite of everything, Bolsonaro is the antithesis of hope.

Bolsonaro introduced Brazil as an “instance of environmental conservation” and even stated that the Amazon deforestation ranges fell by 32% in August, in comparison with August of final yr. That’s not, nonetheless, what Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Amazonian Institute of Mankind and the Surroundings/IAMAZON) says although. Based on this venerable environmental analysis institute, in August 2021, satellite tv for pc imagery measured 1,606 km2 deforestation within the Amazon area, representing a rise of seven% over August 2020.

I’m not going to tire you out by detailing the entire lies made within the speech. It will take dozens of pages to touch upon all of them, however I’ll spotlight one – his ridiculous declare that there have been no instances of corruption in Brazil for the previous 2 years and eight months, since he took workplace.

The rosy and delirious imaginative and prescient of Brazil that he introduced to the world right now didn’t persuade anybody who has entry to a minimal quantity of data. Definitely, it didn’t persuade any critical investor that Brazil is the World’s greatest nation to put money into.

It’s necessary to notice that Bolsonaro ended his speech defending “early therapy” in opposition to Covid-19, saying that he did it himself.

He, who arrived in New York happy with not having a vaccination certificates, gave a worldwide prescription for ignorance, irresponsibility and denial. Bolsonaro, as soon as once more, shamed Brazil.

It’s extra sure than ever that so long as Bolsonaro is in energy, the Mercosur/EU Settlement won’t be accredited and the Brazil received’t be invited into the OECD. There may be additionally zero probability of him partaking in significant dialogue with critical and related heads of state. He will likely be restricted to the tiny circuit of the world’s excessive proper, made up of nations like Poland, from whom he pathetically requested for help to hitch the OECD.

The possibilities of Brazil with the ability to hold what’s left of its democracy appear to decrease day by day. Bolsonaro, harassed by the immense financial, social and political disaster that he himself created, by the quite a few accusations of corruption and by his plummeting reputation, will do what he has at all times completed: have interaction in confrontation.

He has no selection. Opposite to his shameless lie about Brazil’s GDP development subsequent yr, the Brazilian economic system will likely be stagnant in 2022. This can deepen the disaster.

Bolsonaro seems to be coming into a terminal section. This makes him very harmful as a result of he has little to lose.

The temptation to attempt a brand new coup whereas he nonetheless has a big variety of fanatical and mobilized followers, might be nice if his political meltdown continues. This coup may even be supported by sectors of the so-called “third path”, if Lula and his progressive improvement undertaking turn out to be the irreversible favourite for the 2022 elections.

Brecht stated that the fascist sow is at all times in warmth. The very fact is, nonetheless, that fascist actions within the broadest sense, corresponding to bolsonarismo, are uncontrollable. They’ve their personal logic, primarily based on everlasting confrontation, which frequently ignores the boundaries dictated by rationality and by actuality itself. On this sense, you possibly can name Bolsonarismo a form of ideological chloroquine.

The dilemma is more and more clear: both Brazil finishes Bolsonaro or Bolsonaro finishes Brazil. And Brazil is quickly ending.

The nation can now not peacefully coexist with its institutional, financial, social and well being nemesis. Bolsonaro is a critical menace to the nation, to democracy, to establishments and to Brazilian and Brazilian girls. You can not educate a delusional individual to make use of motive. Democracy can’t be taught to a tyrant.

Bolsonaro is uncontrollable. The one strategy to management him is to take him out of energy. The time has come for all true Democrats to acknowledge this.

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