Tabata Amaral: So it is clear that there is a politics that lives on appearing, on spectacle, and there is a politics that works to deliver: one collects likes; the other reaps achievements; one makes noise; the other makes law.
Tabata Amaral: The noise passes, but the law remains.
The best Deputies in this House know this. Making law is hard work, it requires patience, sitting at a Committee table, reading reports, listening to technicians, listening to the population, negotiating amendments with those who think differently and conceding on secondary points to save what is essential, not for oneself, but for the people, for those on the front line.
Tabata Amaral: It takes much more work than turning on your phone camera in the corridor of the Chamber and firing off insults.
Tabata Amaral: The social media algorithm loves conflict, it monetizes collective stress and polarization, but the algorithm does not put food on anyone's table, does not improve anyone's school, does not protect any woman from violence.