Don’t ever let the wrong get by

As a Brazilian citizen we are used to see and hear about corruption everyday.
It is everywhere, but mostly in our government and governmental institutions. Our president party, the “PT” or “Partido dos Trabalhadores”, and most of his close friends, have been accused and condemned of serious crimes, mostly of stealing the nation’s money originally destined to health, education and other fundamental necessities. Anyway, Lula remains in the power with one of the greatest public acceptance ever.

I can’t understand it. How can the politicians of a country with thousands of kids dying everyday of hunger steal from it’s own people to buy castles, mansions, helicopters, to satisfy their luxury? How can they see a little kid starving and don’t feel guilty about it? They are directly killing them. The same thing with our health: thousands and thousands of people dying of “dengue”, a disease very close to the yellow fever, because of the poor situation of the hospitals the government maintain so they and all their parents can have the car of the year. One of the richest country in the world with one of the biggest miserable population.

Even so, the public acceptance is better than ever. That’s because most of our people aren’t educated, and the politicians are happy to keep it this way. So they can, with a few bucks, with programs like “bolsa familia”, buy their votes and acceptance. I just can’t understand how can they live with themselves.
And we are all so used to it that nobody do nothing.

We who are educated and can see what is really happening and do nothing about it, we too are guilty of this situation. We have to fight against it. We can’t accept it. We have to protest, to show everyone our point of view, do what we can to change our country and our world. Because it’s ours too, and if we don’t change it, nobody will. We are the makers!