Lula reconfigures September 7 and highlights the divorce between conservative patriotism and the civic party

The yellow-green party, which nourished the spirits of the Bolsonarists, changes protagonist, leaving the hands of the ‘Captain’ and moving on to his greatest enemy

The rescue of nostalgic patriotism, supported by an idealized idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe military period, has entered a dead end. The main yellow-green party, which fueled conservative spirits, has changed its protagonist, leaving the hands of the “Captain” and passing to its greatest enemy. This has frustrated those in the previous government who took advantage of September 7 to crowd the streets in support of the president. For those, the Independence of Brazil it had a new meaning, involving the idea of ​​ridding the country of the left, which they saw as a reason to celebrate and reaffirm their ideologies.

Studies conducted by AP Exata, in 2022, show that the acts in the streets on Independence Day that year caused Bolsonaro to achieve 43% positive mentions on Twitter, while Lula achieved 33%.

Online voting explanations also benefited the then president. On the 7th Lula had 38% of the votes declared by internet users and Bolsonaro 36.6%. On the 8th, the repercussion of the acts caused Bolsonaro to surpass Lula, scoring 42.4% x 36.4%.

This pro-Bolsonaro effect, however, was short-lived. At the time, the left was trumpeting the news of rising food prices online, and the president missed an opportunity to use the attention he’s garnered to speak to those suffering from inflation. An egocentric discourse reverberated in the figure of the “imbroxable” and communicated only to the bubbles of supporters, making the positive repercussion of the demonstrations into something ephemeral. In a few days Lula will once again have a positive role on the networks, focusing on the idea that with him people will eat picanha again.

This year, with the left back in power, and with the military viewed by Bolsonarists with distrust, 7 de Setembro seems to have lost its appeal for the right. She refuses to participate in the official party promoted by the PT government and, desperately, does not even mobilize for a parallel party. She has chosen to re-mean “stay at home,” hoping the day’s civic-military acts will be a public failure. They prepare an invasion of photos and images from previous years, seeking, once again, the comfort of the nostalgic past.

Lula, in turn, is given the task of saving the national symbols co-opted by the conservative movement. He doesn’t give up on the September 7th procession and the photo next to the commanders of the Armed Forces, but he dissociates himself from a popular patriotic movement. Independence celebrations still populate the memory of those who think that the country should overcome the PT and the entire left. It will be another day for the current president to try to connect with a divided country, where one of the parties does not see him as a legitimate representative.

The blog analyzed publications about Lula that also mention September 7th. Data shows that only 1.6% of posts about the president, published on the eve of Independence Day, refer to the commemorative date. Last year, this rate was 10.4% of mentions in posts about Bolsonaro. In 2021 the percentage was 31.4%, mainly due to the controversy over the printed vote, which was one of the flags of the proceedings.

Lula, therefore, will be the guest of a party that has lost the political-ideological aspect of recent years, to return to being a commemorative event of the formation of the nation and of those who one day decided to separate Brazil from Portugal. Without new meanings, but with all the institutional and regimental weight of protocol solemnities.

Source: Terra

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