For some time now I have had the feeling that common sense has been lost in Portugal and that there are more Portuguese people paying attention to daily news than focused on planning their future.
Portugal has become a country of commentators, where everything serves to increase audiences. From people who don’t have the training to analyze everyday issues to mixing truths with lies, everything goes to guarantee the connection and attention of the Portuguese. But the information lost.
I remember the time when television news was informative and not a spectacle. Now, this show has become a criticism show, a Big Brother where what matters is who is the next to ‘leave the house’.
Twenty-four years after the turn of the millennium, and fifty years after April 25, 1974, we are stuck in time. Paralysis took over Portugal. Any decision or difference of opinion is used to burn politically and personally whoever dares to decide.
If Portugal were a company, the organizational structure would be a disgrace, otherwise let’s look at some facts. The demand for health insurance has never been so high. The public health system does not work, and it is not for lack of money. The demand for private schools has soared because families prefer to invest money in their children’s education, knowing that public schools have lost respect and are no longer a reference.
In justice, there are years of delays in decisions that drive anyone to despair, placing citizens and companies in stress, agony and in a complicated financial situation. The tangle of laws has created a web that does not benefit those who need justice. More. To reduce inflation and the cost of living in Portugal, we must reduce bureaucracy, waiting times and streamline processes. Only in this way will companies and citizens be able to reduce financing costs and reduce the uncertainty of years of waiting.
Demagogy took over Portugal SA. It is easy to discuss how a commentator becomes a politician, forgetting that since the revolution this is exactly what happened, but it is possible to whitewash the difficulties experienced in recent years on a daily basis.
I wonder if we really think that a president of the Board of Directors who left ‘Portugal SA’, because he was unable to unite his few members in Portuguese territory, will be able to unite the wills and interests of different countries, at the head of a European Council?
Portugal needs fewer commentators, less spectacle and more action. Merit, regardless of whether you are Portuguese or not, must be the best way to reward human beings, otherwise machines will actually replace us. In short, this century was not good for Portugal SA, nor for Portugal social.
