It is not good for the health of a democracy to spread false information, casting doubt on the fairness of the results of an election. Worse than that is when voters come to believe in this systematic wave of disbelief about the electoral process. In these post-truth pointy times, lies can become absolute truths, through those expedients that are now so well known and so professionally used.
Once, this editor was in the classroom when several students began to receive, simultaneously, shots from Zap, realizing that a certain priest from a city in Pernambuco was a pedophile. I don't get into the merits of the question - even because some students, of those who didn't believe in hairy legs, were soon leaving such statements under suspicion - but the fact scales the trouble we are in, after such expedients started to be used as a political weapon to destroy the reputation of opponents.
A survey recently released shows that one in three voters began to express suspicion about the fairness of the electoral results. A worrying fact for the health of our representative democracy, as we stated at the beginning. The questioning about the Electoral Justice is an indicator of the terrible moment experienced by our democratic institutions. Free, regular and sovereign elections, with results accepted by the contestants, is one of the indicators that the health of a democracy is going well. When that doesn't happen, something is wrong.
The best example was what happened with the election of President Dilma Rousseff (PT-MG), when the opponent did not accept the sovereign results of the polls and began an exhausting process of political articulation with the purpose of making her government unfeasible, culminating in the institutional coup of 2016. It started school and from there we had no peace, as if repeating the chorus of the popular songbook: "If my team loses, there's zum-zum-zum".
This reminds us of the back-and-forth on the plains of the past, when the opponent did not accept the score of the game and began those inferences about its result, alleging that the referee had failed to award a penalty for his team or expelled a player from the opposing team for an eventual fault committed during the match. Result of all this? Just a tremendous mess created, without anything positive being produced. Our big problem, however, is that there are political actors giving clear demonstrations that they are betting on this chaos.
In the photo above, the elegant Edgar Ferreira da Silva, composer of the song whose chorus is quoted in the editorial.
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