THE PLEASURE OF POLITICS

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A newcomer congressman proposes the return of direct elections for president

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In São Paulo, opposition to the dictatorship organizes the first public rally for direct elections 

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Not a single TV channel covers the rally, only Ernesto Varela’s team.

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THE PLEASURE OF POLITICS

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Hello there, mister Goulart de Andrade,

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once again with you, your reporter Ernesto Varela.

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Once upon a time, people used to talk about the “politics of pleasure”.

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Today, here at the Charles Miller Square,

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we’re going to talk about the “pleasure of politics”.

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– Excuse me…
– Oh, no.

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– What?
– Excuse me, don’t you want to express yourself?

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What kind of pleasure exists in politics?

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Well, I think this is a very complicated subject, you know?

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I’m not sure we can talk about such thing, a pleasure in politics.

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I think that, most of the time…

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But this not a discussion. It’s just a question.

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Pleasure? 

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Look, in my opinion,

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the way politics is being done nowadays,

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well, there’s no pleasure in it.

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Excuse me!

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What’s the pleasure of politics?

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None.

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None.

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You mean pleasure? What kind of pleasure?

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The thing is that we must snatch them out of power, man.

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I don’t know. I don’t do politics. I only practice solidarity.

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I’m part of the Brazilian Committee of Solidarity 

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to the People of Latin America.

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– Do you think that Latin America is going to work it out?
– What?

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– Latin America, will it work it out?
– Work what? What do you mean?

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What’s going on in here?

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What’s up is that some dudes here

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want to commit suicide

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against Reagan’s invasion in Latin America.

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He has already invaded Brazil.

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Now he’s invading Central America.

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– Who wants to commit suicide? 
– No, no…

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– No, it’s a group, it’s a group…
– It’s your group?

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No, 

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he’s ashamed of talking in front of the camera.

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Now, when the criminals organize themselves 

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and start killing in a more organized way, y’know? 

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With rhythm, politically, then everything will be ok. It will change.

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Only then things will change, y’know.

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What kind of nice things you did here today?

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I had an ice cream.

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What do you is more tasteful:

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making politics or having an ice cream in a hot summer day like today?

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In times like these, I prefer having an ice cream

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What is the pleasure of politics?

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None, so far. We can’t even talk nowadays,

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how could we have some sort of pleasure with it?

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– Pleasure?
– Power.

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You can buy some pleasure then.

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– With power?
– Yeah, with power.

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Is power an important thing?

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It is, when you fight for it.

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– Do you fight for it?
– No, I don’t.

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I think a man only fulfills himself,

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he’s only happy making politics, you know?

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Being participant.

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I feel happy making politics.

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If I didn’t do politics, I wouldn’t be happy.
 
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There’s no pleasure in politics. It’s a struggle.

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There’s no pleasure? 

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Cocão! Cocão!

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Hey, buddy. My name’s Ernesto Varela, man.

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BRAZIL’S BEST OPTION

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COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRAZIL

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Excuse me, are you a communist? 

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I’m a member of the Communist Party of Brazil.

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It smells like barbecue around here:

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are you responsible for that?

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No, it comes from the nearby tent. 

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You’re not eating little children, are you?

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No, we don’t eat little children.

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Ah, ok. Thanks.

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Who’s buying Marx? It’s a thousand bucks.

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The man who contributed to the liberation of man.

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And still contributes.

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Let’s take a look on what kind of books they have 

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in that little tent in there..

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Can I take look on the books?

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Is this famous? Which edition is this?

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It’s the 3rd edition.

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Ok… “This submission, instead of more intense

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becomes more extensive as the capital grows

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enlarging its field of exploitation and dominion

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according to it’s own dimensions and the amount of vassals.”

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The Capital, how much does it cost, buddy?

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We’re getting up a raffle for The Capital.

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All the volumes of The Capital,

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plus The History of Surplus-Value,

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plus a new, recently edited version of the chapter 6 of The Capital,

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it’s a thousand bucks for a raffle number for all of this.

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Luís Inácio. Luís, 

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Wich is the pleasure of politics?

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Well, I think the pleasure of politics, in fact,

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it’s about feeling the people participating,

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feeling the people beginning to rise up,

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in a way to start changing things for himself in this country.

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Lula, are you an angry person?

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No, actually I am not an angry person.

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The truth is that my face looks angrier than I’m on the inside.

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In fact, we don’t have many reasons to be happy.

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The Brazilian worker don’t have any reason

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to be happy nowadays.

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The poor devil don’t earn a lot,

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he gets fired from his job…

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Therefore I don’t fell like laughing. 

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Does your political activity get in the way of your life as a human being,

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as a father?

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It does, it does.

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We loose indeed some of our privacy. 

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But I hope I’ll be strong enough to keep up the fight so one day

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my kids may understand what we’re doing today,

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so they may understand that even the sacrifices they’re making today,

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their goal is simply to make them,

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who are 3, 5 and 8 years old now,

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to have a bit more of happiness than I myself had.

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Thanks Lula and PT. Bye-bye.

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A Hindu philosopher once said that 

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the masses spoil the leader

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and that the leader spoil the masses

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in a way that he gets more and more distant 

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of himself as a person.

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What do you think of that?

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Well, you usually make awesome interviews,

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this is the most surprising so far today.

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I think a leader take a lot the risk

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of distancing himself from the masses that support him.

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And I think that the best solution

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to that serious problem

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is for him to stay open to conversations, to dialog,

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always feeling himself

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as an equal to any citizen

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among the crowd.

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Ok then. I hope your foot gets better.

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Is it broken? What happened?

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I only ask you to not tap on my back 

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while hugging goodbye 

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because that’s one of the places that hurts. 

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– Oh, cool. I’m sorry for that. Thanks.
– Bye-bye.

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Excuse me, Mrs. Marta Suplicy,

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what’s the pleasure of politics?

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Look, I don’t know what it is. I wish I knew.

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I’m disputing against it all the time

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and it defeats me very often.

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Everything for the report:

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Mr. Hélio Bicudo, do you like delivering speeches? 

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I do, when they’re speeches for direct elections.

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What’s the pleasure of making politics?

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The pleasure of making politics is to be with the people, 

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to work for the people.

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According to the Aurelio dictionary,

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politics is the art of ruling properly the people.

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But who reads dictionaries these days?