An editorial commentary published by the newspaper A Voz de Trás-os-Montes harshly criticizes those who have turned gossip into a profession of faith. The article describes people who do not build or present solutions, but who dedicate themselves to commenting, suspecting and dividing, resisting the temptation to talk about others. The text describes this existence as an "emotional accounting of politics," exhaustive and deeply useless.
The article highlights a fascinating characteristic of gossip: its ability to present itself disguised as moral superiority. The gossiper is never simply speaking ill, but always, according to himself, defending principles, protecting institutions, demanding ethics or saving parties. This mask of misunderstood public service allows criticism to maintain an appearance of legitimacy.
The central problem identified is that gossip ultimately loses effectiveness when it stops provoking indignation and only provokes indifference. The article argues that behind so much dramatics, there is no idea, no project, no capacity for mobilization, no genuine alternative. There are those who spend years convinced they occupy the center stage when, in reality, the audience has already left. Politics continues with the people who work, organize teams, present proposals and seek to build alternatives.
The text concludes that a healthy political organization is not one where everyone thinks the same, but where different sensibilities work with maturity. The article ends with a simple question: after so many years of speaking ill of others, what remains? If the answer is just another article or another insinuation, then we are not facing a crisis of politics, but rather the bankruptcy of gossip, as the title itself announces.
