Ex-blogueiro da Veja escreve carta em inglês para candidato republicano e recebe bolsa do Yázigi como resposta

O ex-blogueiro da Veja Rodrigo Constantino escreveu uma carta de apoio ao senador Marco Rubio, que concorre a uma vaga no Partido Republicano dos EUA para disputar a presidência.

Num inglês cucaracha, ele se define como “economista e escritor famoso no Brasil” e pede, basicamente, que Rubio salve os EUA dos bolivarianos.

Morador de Miami, RC recebeu como resposta uma bolsa do curso Yázigi e um guardanapo no qual estava escrito “get a life, bitch”.

A carta:

My name is Rodrigo and I’m a well known economist and writer in Brazil, with more than one hundred thousand followers in Facebook. I used to write in the largest magazine in my country, I’m a bestselling author about the “liberal limousine” and also write in the largest newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, my hometown.

I mention it just for you to know my background, because it’s important for my message to be taken seriously. It’s not somebody’s guess or paranoia, but a warning of someone who studies the subject and fight against socialists in Brazil for a long time. We’re now in a terrible shape and lots of people were taken by surprised, but I saw it coming since at least 2010, when “The Economist” magazine put Brazil in the cover as a huge success case.

I live in Florida since May 2015. Why? For the same reason I decided to write this small piece: United States of America is a great country. You Americans should never be ashamed of it. Meanwhile, Brazil is not that good. It’s too dangerous, too violent and with many, many poor people. I’m talking about very poor people, not like what we call poor in America, which is above our middle class there.

Brazil has also a rotten and corrupt State, which feeds the monstrous crony capitalism and keeps the country from being a rich and free place. Individual freedom is not something we value that much, as you can tell by the Economic Freedom Index of Heritage Foundation (we are at 122 in the ranking). That’s why we see a lot of Brazilians trying to come here to work and live in the United States, and not many Americans doing the opposite.

So why do I write this to you? Simple: in these months I’m here, and also with lots of reading, I’ve come to realize USA is more and more like Latin America. Ok, there is still a long way to go, but it’s the trend that worries me. The left here has become too radical, and even what the mainstream media calls “moderate” is way beyond reasonable. President Obama is not that different from our populist leaders back in Latin America. To tell the truth, I used to say that he was just like Lula, but with darker skin. What about Hillary Clinton, or even worse, Bernie Sanders? Hell, he is socialist, and his dream is to live in a place where profit is not welcome anymore, where everything comes from the State.

Let me tell you something: I used to live exactly in that place, and it sucks! In Brazil, entrepreneurs are not seen as heroes who create wealth, but as thieves who steal poor people through capitalism. The State, otherwise, is like God. Everyone looks at it as a way to get something in return for nothing. They want a free ride, and they believe that money grows in trees or falls from the sky. We don’t even say: “how much money do you make”; but “how much money do you earn”, as if it’s a gift, not something we have to work hard to get.