A newcomer congressman proposes the return of direct elections for president
In São Paulo, opposition to the dictatorship organizes the first public rally for direct elections
Not a single TV channel covers the rally, only Ernesto Varela’s team.
THE PLEASURE OF POLITICS
Hello there, mister Goulart de Andrade,
once again with you, your reporter Ernesto Varela.
Once upon a time, people used to talk about the “politics of pleasure”.
Today, here at the Charles Miller Square,
we’re going to talk about the “pleasure of politics”.
– Excuse me… – Oh, no.
– What? – Excuse me, don’t you want to express yourself?
What kind of pleasure exists in politics?
Well, I think this is a very complicated subject, you know?
I’m not sure we can talk about such thing, a pleasure in politics.
I think that, most of the time…
But this not a discussion. It’s just a question.
Pleasure?
Look, in my opinion,
the way politics is being done nowadays,
well, there’s no pleasure in it.
Excuse me!
What’s the pleasure of politics?
None.
You mean pleasure? What kind of pleasure?
The thing is that we must snatch them out of power, man.
I don’t know. I don’t do politics. I only practice solidarity.
I’m part of the Brazilian Committee of Solidarity
to the People of Latin America.
– Do you think that Latin America is going to work it out? – What?
– Latin America, will it work it out? – Work what? What do you mean?
What’s going on in here?
What’s up is that some dudes here
want to commit suicide
against Reagan’s invasion in Latin America.
He has already invaded Brazil.
Now he’s invading Central America.
– Who wants to commit suicide? – No, no…
– No, it’s a group, it’s a group… – It’s your group?
No,
he’s ashamed of talking in front of the camera.
Now, when the criminals organize themselves
and start killing in a more organized way, y’know?
With rhythm, politically, then everything will be ok. It will change.
Only then things will change, y’know.
What kind of nice things you did here today?
I had an ice cream.
What do you is more tasteful:
making politics or having an ice cream in a hot summer day like today?
In times like these, I prefer having an ice cream
What is the pleasure of politics?
None, so far. We can’t even talk nowadays,
how could we have some sort of pleasure with it?
– Pleasure? – Power.
You can buy some pleasure then.
– With power? – Yeah, with power.
Is power an important thing?
It is, when you fight for it.
– Do you fight for it? – No, I don’t.
I think a man only fulfills himself,
he’s only happy making politics, you know?
Being participant.
I feel happy making politics.
If I didn’t do politics, I wouldn’t be happy.
There’s no pleasure in politics. It’s a struggle.
There’s no pleasure?
Cocão! Cocão!
Hey, buddy. My name’s Ernesto Varela, man.
BRAZIL’S BEST OPTION
COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRAZIL
Excuse me, are you a communist?
I’m a member of the Communist Party of Brazil.
It smells like barbecue around here:
are you responsible for that?
No, it comes from the nearby tent.
You’re not eating little children, are you?
No, we don’t eat little children.
Ah, ok. Thanks.
Who’s buying Marx? It’s a thousand bucks.
The man who contributed to the liberation of man.
And still contributes.
Let’s take a look on what kind of books they have
in that little tent in there..
Can I take look on the books?
Is this famous? Which edition is this?
It’s the 3rd edition.
Ok… “This submission, instead of more intense
becomes more extensive as the capital grows
enlarging its field of exploitation and dominion
according to it’s own dimensions and the amount of vassals.”
The Capital, how much does it cost, buddy?
We’re getting up a raffle for The Capital.
All the volumes of The Capital,
plus The History of Surplus-Value,
plus a new, recently edited version of the chapter 6 of The Capital,
it’s a thousand bucks for a raffle number for all of this.
Luís Inácio. Luís,
Wich is the pleasure of politics?
Well, I think the pleasure of politics, in fact,
it’s about feeling the people participating,
feeling the people beginning to rise up,
in a way to start changing things for himself in this country.
Lula, are you an angry person?
No, actually I am not an angry person.
The truth is that my face looks angrier than I’m on the inside.
In fact, we don’t have many reasons to be happy.
The Brazilian worker don’t have any reason
to be happy nowadays.
The poor devil don’t earn a lot,
he gets fired from his job…
Therefore I don’t fell like laughing.
Does your political activity get in the way of your life as a human being,
as a father?
It does, it does.
We loose indeed some of our privacy.
But I hope I’ll be strong enough to keep up the fight so one day
my kids may understand what we’re doing today,
so they may understand that even the sacrifices they’re making today,
their goal is simply to make them,
who are 3, 5 and 8 years old now,
to have a bit more of happiness than I myself had.
Thanks Lula and PT. Bye-bye.
A Hindu philosopher once said that
the masses spoil the leader
and that the leader spoil the masses
in a way that he gets more and more distant
of himself as a person.
What do you think of that?
Well, you usually make awesome interviews,
this is the most surprising so far today.
I think a leader take a lot the risk
of distancing himself from the masses that support him.
And I think that the best solution
to that serious problem
is for him to stay open to conversations, to dialog,
always feeling himself
as an equal to any citizen
among the crowd.
Ok then. I hope your foot gets better.
Is it broken? What happened?
I only ask you to not tap on my back
while hugging goodbye
because that’s one of the places that hurts.
– Oh, cool. I’m sorry for that. Thanks. – Bye-bye.
Excuse me, Mrs. Marta Suplicy,
what’s the pleasure of politics?
Look, I don’t know what it is. I wish I knew.
I’m disputing against it all the time
and it defeats me very often.
Everything for the report:
Mr. Hélio Bicudo, do you like delivering speeches?
I do, when they’re speeches for direct elections.
What’s the pleasure of making politics?
The pleasure of making politics is to be with the people,
to work for the people.
According to the Aurelio dictionary,
politics is the art of ruling properly the people.
But who reads dictionaries these days?