The press’ attempt to justify the fact that Lula gathered only 1,600 people is embarrassing, during the early campaign for Guilherme Boulos, in São Paulosupposedly a celebration of Labor Day.
The explanations, if you can call it that, range from the fact that it was very hot in the capital of São Paulo to the “difficulty for unions to speak to the base” because of “the impact of neoliberalism on union leaders and workers, because this ideology takes away the responsibility of State of production of well-being and transfers responsibility to the individual, who will provide it in any way he can”.
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Lula was the one who gave the password that it was necessary to find an excuse for failure. He said that the act was “poorly called”, and the responsibility was immediately attributed by his “surrounding people” to the Minister of the General Secretariat, Márcio Macedo — who counterattacked by saying that it is not “the role of the government to mobilize acts” and pointing out the finger to the trade unions. But, poor things, what can they do in the face of the “impact of liberalism”?
Among the PT members, there are also those who have started to recommend that Lula “modernize his relationship with workers”, if he wants to regain the ability to gather crowds in demonstrations of which he is the star.
Lava Jato won
That the world changed and only the PT members didn’t see it, this is more than forensic evidence. But it is not the great changes in the world, between the real ones and the fictitious departures of “political scientists” (a profession that does not exist), that are the biggest cause of Lula’s loss of popularity.
The fundamental factor, the one that matters most and that the press conveniently leaves aside, is that Lula was defeated by Car washdespite having been released by the STF.
A large part of the population saw in Lula a worker who managed to come to power without losing his popular essence and without relegating his concern for the poor to the background. With the discovery by Lava Jato of the ocean of mud in which he was submerged, Lula began to be seen by many who admired him as another politician like so many others or even worse, because he was never expected to behave in the way he did. behaved.
Lula is the system
His rhetoric, his way of speaking, his bar table jokes, his alms with public money, none of this clouds the vision of the real Lula anymore: he is just another old politician, who won a very narrow electoral victory in 2024, thanks to the demerits of competitor Jair Bolsonaro — who, object of repulsion and attacked from all sides, still manages to sell himself as a novelty that is not for tens of millions of citizens.
Lula is the system; Lula is a past that insists on reliving. If he wins the next election, it will not be because Brazilians have returned to having the same consideration they had for him until the first decade of this century. It will be based on possible weakness of the competition. Lula lost his empathy, his charm, his charisma, his ability to convince, his credibility. The world changed, Lula remained identical, but as a caricature of himself, because he was defeated by Lava Jato, which exposed what he always was.
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