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Let me recap me impressions. Car Wash was, as far as I can tell, a genuinely well-intended operation to fight corruption. Unfortunately, Moro is doubly retarded. First because the old elites skillfully maneuvered it to damn nearly kill PT and the left, as well as purge their own ranks. Second, because the Clean Hands operation in Italy, of which Moro is a fanboy, was worthless, or possibly worse than that. Gherardo Colombo, one of the chief judges in the Milan office, is saying loudly and clearly that Clean Hands did jack shit to decrease corruption in Italy. Yes, a lot of crooks fell from public grace, but very few actually got sentenced. The rest evaded jail thanks to plea bargains, or by their buddies in power altering laws in order to help them. They had a lot of time to do that, since the operation lasted 13 years. By the end of it, out of all accusations, no less than twenty percent were absolved, and forty fucking percent prescribed. God knows how many more got away. One of the "innocents" was our old friend Berlusconi. When an anti-corruption operation nabs an obvious and blatant criminal like Berlusconi and declares him to be not guilty, you know that operation failed utterly at its goal. And when, in the political void caused by the fall of the old party arrangements, Berlusconi uses his media empire to become easily the most high profile politician in the country, you know that operation actually made things worse. And the thing is, Moro actually knew that Berlusconi was the main beneficiary of that fiasco. He wrote some academic paper about Clean Hands years ago, but his mind PURE IDEOLOGY-addled mind concluded that it was a price worth paying in order to fight corruption. (As far as I recall, he doesn't explain the disconnect between the media's fundamental task in helping Clean Hands with Berlusconi's near monopoly.) Now it turns out that Clean Hands didn't put a dent on corruption, and, well. I expect that at some point down the decades his naive ass is gonna get gulagged by PSDB looking for a escapegoat for the scandal du jour.
Another important detail about Moro's old paper. He says clearly that Clean Hands depended on a concerted effort with the media in order to reach its full effect. Oh yeah, a Latin American national media participating in a witch-hunt, what could possibly go wrong. So from the start it was obvious PT was the target. Jornal Nacional wouldn't go a fucking day without reminding us that Dilma or Lula were under investigation, regardless of whether anything actually happened that day, and certain other parties, of course, barely ever got mentioned. Dilma fell on a technicality (it was something seeing the same congressmen, only a couple of months apart, impeach Dilma and defend Temer using the exact same argument: to keep the country stable), Lula was condemned in the fastest trial I have ever seen, and in a similarly quick appeal. So then, time for the old elites to turn this apparatus against each other, and they really went after PMDB and Temer, but he clinged onto power. I'll elaborate on this later. Anyway, I noticed the media started ragging on Aecio a bit, on Serra a bit less, and Alckmin almost never was mentioned, despite the three being defendants too. From this, I guessed that Alckmin won the power struggle amongst the old elites, and the other two had to fall in order for Alckmin to be a candidate. Lo and behold, the media dropped the hammer on Aecio, and Serra wasn't in the limelight but was forced to resign from a ministry because of the looming accusations and law low, and meanwhile Alckmin became not just PSDB's presidential candidate, but party leader to boot.
So far, I got had agrasp on things. I lost that when the media started attacking PSDB at large too, even Alckmin, the heir apparent. What the hell happened? Jornal Nacional these days seems designed to drive one to despair, as they report on accusations all major politicians, and have incessant coverage about the rising crime and deepening crisis.Until it dawned on me that maybe it is designed to drive one to despair. What if Globo broke from the old elites which purged PT and wanted Alckmin as president? This would explain that attacks against him, and the increasingly pessimistic tone of the news show. And who stands to gain from all this fearmongering about crime, unemployment, moral panics and an eternal and pervasive feeling that all mainstream politicians are crooks? Who has been posing as the latest savior of the nation, who will end corruption in some vague way and fix the economy by doing whatever? Why, Bolsonaro, of course. The media playing up the popular feeling of insatisfaction towards "everything that is there" plays to his demagoguery perfectly. Has Globo broken off with the old elites with which they purged PT and raised Alckmin and instead stealthily thrown their support in with The Myth?
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