Brazil hostage to polarization: how to escape the trap of conflict without results

Brazil goes to the polls this Sunday (4) hostage to the trap created by the battle of aversions and affections that politics has become, which has ceased to be the art of building consensus from dissent to become the very source of discord.

The logic is that of conflict for the sake of conflict, producing impasses without achieving results. Talking about polarization and attributing to it the imprisonment of the country to two currents that are deaf to the contradiction is to rain in the wet of platitudes.

The commonplace simplifies the scene, but it does not shed light on the escape route or explain why we fall into the trap. Equally irrelevant to the elaboration of a thought that takes us forward is clinging to the initial framework of the friction dynamics.

Whether it's "us versus them" or "them versus us", the damage is done. Now it’s interesting to know how to escape snooker. Of the favorites in the rejection dispute, all that was seen was encouragement of environmental contamination, the infection of which took over the courts, so called superior courts.

There is no commitment to the consequences, whichever way you look. Congress deals with budgetary matters, the Judiciary leadership indulges in militant rivalries, the leadership of the government is the object of greed by groups focused on their own projects, and the country is in the hands of whatever happens.

There is only one way to escape this trap: it is to retrace the path of obedience to the rules and legally established roles. The general willingness to air the environment so that other voices can be heard without disqualifying them for refusing to join the fight with fingers in the eyes and blows to the lower abdomen would also contribute.

The Legislature would be responsible for once again exercising its functions of popular representation; to the Judiciary, the resumption of the role of defending legality and to the Executive would fulfill the task of governing for everyone, navigating differences with respect to the adversary to, thus, lead the indispensable and urgent process of institutional reorganization.