Tabata Amaral: Right now, several cell phones in this House are buzzing to report some new controversy of the day.
Tabata Amaral: Tomorrow it will be another; the day after, another. Brazilian politics has become a machine that makes us look in the wrong direction.
Every day it points to a new scandal, a new enemy, a new controversy, anything that grabs your attention, while real life — your life, the one that really matters — happens far from there, with no one looking at its biggest problems: the biggest problems of those who wake up at 4 a.m. to catch two crowded buses to go to work; of those who spend the month doing mental arithmetic at the supermarket to see if the salary will be enough to buy rice, beans, and the children's milk; of the mother who waits months for a medical appointment, for a diagnosis, or for a spot in daycare so she can return to work.
Tabata Amaral: These real lives do not receive the attention they deserve.
Tabata Amaral: That is why the people's weariness with politics is so real and also so legitimate.