What governor Geraldo Alckmin is doing in São Paulo is an example of the latest policies of the PSDB.
They have been authoritarian and violent, exhibiting absolute disregard for what the party has been persistently advocating for in recent months: popular participation.
Someone should warn you that democracy isn't only validated by people agreeing with you.
I mean, taking to the streets to demand the president's impeachment and taking pictures with Eduardo Cunha is a legitimate and non-partisan movement. OK.
But when students mobilize -- as society has repeatedly demanded, in a conscious and organized way -- it's classified a "clearly political" movement. Come on!
The level of idiocy shown by brainless pro-impeachment supporters is unbelievable.
"The real goal is to take the focus away from Brasilia."
We are going back to Cold War rhetoric. If the PSDB buys into that idea -- which the governor has already adopted -- all will be lost.
By this logic, everything that represents social demands and participation is an attempt to launch a communist revolution.
Enough of that! We are not in 1960. There is no Soviet Union. Cuba has resumed relations with the United States.
Riot police face students during a demonstration against school reorganization in Sao Paulo, on December 4, 2015. (Miguel Schincariol/AFP/Getty Images)
And even worse, it is a mediocre view of capitalism. Under these terms, what does it mean to be a capitalist?
Under capitalism, students have to study and have no demands, workers have to accept the salary their employers are willing to pay, and citizens cannot question the government. Is that it? Do liberals agree with this point of view? It looks a lot like the Stalinist regime. Maybe it was Stalin who really understood capitalism...
We cannot be prisoners of this insane dichotomy. Neither in São Paulo nor in Brasília, where the least legitimate politician -- not under arrest -- has just announced that he has accepted, for purely technical reasons, with great sorrow, the impeachment request against president Dilma.
We arrived at a point where it is no longer necessary to disguise intentions.
The Workers' Party (PT) says it won't support him with the lower house ethics committee, and literally 20 minutes later, congressman Cunha accepts the attempt to overthrow the president.
There is no other word to describe all this than blackmail and revenge... It is an attempt to overthrow the president. It is a coup.
If the opposition's arguments had any legitimacy, whether partisan or based on the demands of the society, it went down the drain after Cunha's announcement.
Demonstrators protest for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 19, 2015. (Miguel Schincariol/AFP/Getty Images)
This should make the headlines in major newspapers, but I doubt it will. This should be the attitude of an earnest and democratic opposition.
It doesn't matter what one thinks of the PT's government or of Dilma. They might be some of the most hated people in the universe. No serious democracy is sustainable when it's possible to remove the president from office like this.
Unless you abandon any hint of interest for the country and assume your sole objective is to remove PT from the government, it is impossible to support this kind of move.
Because it resembles the move of a mafia-type criminal organization, like everything that has been done in Petrobras, and the commercialization of politics that we've witnessed lately.
Every one of us, whatever our position, must decide whether to change politics or just assume the worst in order to win.
Win what exactly? A shattered democracy, a deformed system, and parties, from all sides of the ideological spectrum, that have betrayed any convictions they once had.
Democracy doesn't work that way. Neither in São Paulo nor in Brasília.
Democracy isn't sending the police to engage in "dialogue" with students who are behaving exactly as we would like them to -- they're thinking, organizing and demanding their rights.
Democracy isn't supporting a blackmailer to remove a president and a party from power. Even for those who believe that this government and this party represent what is worst in politics.
Here and there, in São Paulo, where PSDB is the ruling party, and in Brasilia, where the PSDB is the main opposition force, the history of the social-democratic party is at stake.
If they think the PT is finished, they seem to be prepared to die -- at least as social democrats -- together with the Workers' Party.
This post originally appeared in HuffPost Brazil and was translated into English.