Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBruno Maçães: uncertainty
26 Sept 2018 Conversations with Tyler Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure
“If you ask me why not, it is also — and I hope the listeners won’t be disappointed that I use this escape route too often — but it’s still a puzzle and a mystery to me.”
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- Bruno Maçães
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- uncertainty
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- 26 Sept 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Portugal today. Why is there no right-wing nationalistic movement as we see in so many other European countries? There isn’t even a right wing. There isn’t even a center right. We have to develop that before we develop a far-right movement. If you ask me why not, it is also — and I hope the listeners won’t be disappointed that I use this escape route too often — but it’s still a puzzle and a mystery to me. You could say it’s because of the dictatorship, reaction against that, the 48 years of Salazar. But you had very similar dictatorships in Spain and Italy, and now you have very self-confident center-right and far-right parties. Not in Portugal, where it remains very difficult. My experience in politics was precisely of how difficult it is to embrace ideas that everywhere else in the world are acceptable, but not in Portugal. Was Portugal the first European country to lose its sense of adventure?…
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