Destruction of public policies to combat inequalities undermines diagnosis of the country's real problemMay the deaf be convincedand that the insatiableThe wolves will feed them instead of devouring them!Pulling his teeth out!Bertolt Brecht, The HopefulThere's a huge, freezing winter inside people.The cold that makes us look for a warm corner, a good coat and a drink to overcome it is the same that humiliates and imposes an uncontrollable pain on those who are homeless and without hope.Brazil lost to misery and, when it returned to the UN hunger map, where it had left in 2012, it threw thousands of Brazilians onto the streets.With the pandemic and social chaos, something like 500,000 people were forced to live in the open, sheltered in plastic bags, tents, abandoned buildings, holes or culverts.It is difficult to know the exact number, because it is a contingent of invisible people, without names, without a fixed address and stories that have been lost along the way.With unemployment increasingly overwhelming, the profile of homeless people has also changed.According to the National Movement of the Street Population, the number of women and children has increased alarmingly.Entire families seek “the comfort and safety” of the marquees, tunnels and viaducts, which makes it difficult to carry out a decent census and know the size of the problem.A broad and honest diagnosis of this scenario would help to understand the dimension of the hole.Along with the scourge of famine, negative growth and the closing of jobs, we are still experiencing the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic.And today, workers are forced to face social, health and economic instability by living on the streets as the only and last way out.The issue is humanitarian and the solution is necessarily political.With the inauguration of the fascist government of President Bolsonaro, several councils of popular representation were dissolved.The propaganda of non-politics, which was used as a motto to elect the current group, is, in fact, entirely based on the policy of social exclusion, on the weakening of society and on the crumbling of the inclusion and warmth movements.I refer to the poem “O crow”, by Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Fernando Pessoa:“'Let this cry separate us, bird or devil!' I said.'Part!Return to night and storm!Return to hellish darkness!Don't let pity testify to the lie you told!My solitude remains to me!Get off my threshold!Take the shape from my chest and the shadow from my thresholds!'Said the crow, 'Never again'”.The desperation of a person who lives on the streets, with small children, to wake up and feel powerless, is overwhelming.The darkness of night is sometimes better than the sun, which seems to expose ailments and lack of perspective.It is as if light serves to show collective misery.The bone queue becomes a privilege and a livelihood option.Even in order to create a network of resistance for those who are on the streets and in poverty, life is less and less life.In the voice of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in the poem “The shoulders support the world”:“There comes a time when you no longer say: My God.Absolute debug time.Your shoulders support the worldand he weighs no more than a child's hand.There is a time that dying does not worth it.A time has come when life is an order.Life alone, without mystification.”The government does not truly know the profile of the current homeless people.Of those who, just yesterday, were employed or underemployed.It cannot make a difference between the former residents and those who are now occupying public spaces.It is difficult to establish a public policy, coordinate social assistance networks and the SUS when the problem is not even known from the inside.The impression is that the Bolsonaro government is the exact face of the president: blind, ignorant and without real concern for the underserved.A cruel, searing insensitivity.There is no pain, no cold and no hunger that can make these groups have any importance in setting priorities.The situation of extreme vulnerability could only be addressed if, in some way, this sensitized the public authorities.Worse still, the longer the citizen lives on the street, the more difficult it becomes for them to reintegrate into the public sector assistance network.One problem leads to another.The neglect and lack of a technical confrontation of the issue only aggravate the reality and make the lives of the residents more distressing, with no prospect of getting out of the tragedy.In 1986, the UN created World Homeless Day (October 4) to draw attention to the unbelievable 800 million homeless people in the world.The current Brazilian government seems to make a point of placing itself well in the macabre ranking of hunger, misery and abandonment.The destruction of all public policies and the strategy of disrupting the most diverse sectors – health, science, education, culture, security and the economy – will make Brazil, even removing this fascist government by vote in October , have a long and painful road to recovery.It's late, but there's still time.Let's do some work to rescue Brazil that was swallowed up by obscurantism.We, the privileged, can still wait for the restructuring to take place, but for millions of Brazilians, time is already an enemy that kills little by little.From cold, from hunger, from despair, from hopelessness and from sadness.It is good that we remember this when October arrives and, with the democratic serenity that must be our companion, we can choose to smother this inhuman and coup project once and for all.Reminding us of the balancing hope of the great Betinho, “Whoever is hungry, is in a hurry.”Antônio Carlos de Almeida Castro, known as Kakay, is 61 years old.He was born in Patos de Minas (MG) and studied law at UnB, in Brasília.He is a criminal lawyer and has defended 4 former presidents of the Republic, 80 governors, dozens of congressmen and ministers of state.In addition to large contractors and bankers.He writes to Poder360 every Friday.Editor's note: the texts, photos, videos, tables and other iconographic materials published in the “opinion” space do not necessarily reflect the thinking of Poder360, and the author(s) are fully responsible for the information, value judgments and concepts disclosed.a) To receive the requested information, you authorize us to use your name, email address and/or telephone number and subjects of interest (depending on the option marked and the interest indicated).Regardless of your choice, please note that Poder360 may contact you for regular matters.b) If you do not wish to give your consent to Poder360's disclosures, it is possible to proceed without receiving the information indicated above.You may, at any time, unsubscribe from our contacts or revoke the consent given below through our service channels.c) Poder360 will guarantee the exercise of any rights and prerogatives for the protection of personal data in accordance with Law 13.709/2018.For more information, read our Privacy Policy.Poder360 has sent you an email to confirm your subscription.Click on the link sent to your email to complete the registration.Haven't arrived yet?Check your spam folder if the message hasn't appeared in a few minutes.