This kind of poli-affectionate-union-of-the-left that António Costa has created,
is a real turbulent storm in the making.
Out of this stifling world, which brings with it, the promise of a real virtuous chaos,
of the corruption of thought, which the current PS displays, and which manifests,
among other things, the systematic practice of the falsification of history:
a) it was Passos Coelho who brought us the troika,
b) it was the coalition who lost the elections,
c) it was right which became radicalized, etc
And always the imense longing for the PSD of Sá Carneiro.
It is interesting to note, especially in 1980,
those who voted for the early Democratic Alliance,
later voted for General Soares Carneiro.
Most of the so-called admirers of Sá Carneiro
didn't hestate to call him posthumously a "Fascist."
It is as if our language necessarily tends
to an increasing limitation of freedom of expression,
to an unheard of degree of policing,
and what is not contradictory with the above mentioned,
for a wild abstract lyricism of good feelings.
Francis Bacon, the English philosopher of the early seventeenth century
- which was, moreover, an extraordinary genius for the invention of vocabulary -
called the words that tend to hamper the proper use of our understanding,
"idols of the public square":
commonly used names to designate things that do not exist
and confusing names for actually existing things.
In both cases, the names acquire a magical power over our understanding
and discourage us from contact with reality,
immersing us in a world that apparently only makes sense.
The words surround and violate the understanding.
They become, as it were, fetishes,
(although Bacon did not use the word,
for obvious reasons it only came into circulation
in Europe more than a century after his death).
But if there is a word that has this fetish status today, it is the word "leftist".
But "rightist" - let's forget the political vocabulary in general
- does not enjoy, nor even remotely,
the fetish cult status that "leftist" enjoys,
nor, does it, therefore, have an equivalent passionate investment.
On the contrary. To be a "leftist" is to cultivate the idols of the public square
and speak the language of an abstract good,
against an evil not less abstract,
which apparently protects it.
It was this word fetishism, diffuse in character, of their subject,
dressed in an apparent unison voice, which allowed António Costa,
the glorious idea to join into a coalition government, or something similar,
entities as different as the Socialists, the radical BE and the communists.
The result, if the machines of the weirdo laboratorium work,
will necessarily be a logical and political monster, Frankenstein,
that Costa, like a modern Dr. Jekyll,
will seek to control and discipline,
in a political experiment which will lead to disaster,
despite the difficult situation Costa himself entered into,
with some parts of his mental anatomy in the constitution of the monster, (Mr Hyde).
There are, however, some differences between the original monster
and the monster created by António Costa.
The first had a tragic dimension and their crimes were committed in despair.
In addition, Dr. Frankenstein was almost immediately taken up by feelings of pain and guilt
for what he had created.
The new monster, if any, will act methodically and with forethought,
and our Dr. Jekyll (Costa)
has given sufficient evidence,
of not easily giving in, to the kind of feelings of the original.
because , like the original he has an evil, dark side to him.
He discovers a special mixture which separates the bad part
from the good part and turns him into another person.
This person is dangerous and deadly.
Eventually the good side of the doctor
cannot control the bad side and the ill-fated doctor kills himself.
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