Our own Dictatorship

I'm probably the person who believes the most in the saying "it is better late than ever", and that's why  I am here today.

I have absolute sure that I should already have done this but between problems with the network and some other facts out of my control, this is the time.

So, to start our project, we had a lot of questions which led our work, research and presentation, but all started with just one: should we aloud extremist parties in the Parliament?

This question appeared when we knew that some right parties where growing and growing throughout Europe; in Holland, the Nazi party is one of the best represented in the Parliament. But also in France, Italy (Berlusconi is supported by fascists), Austria and even Germany and Portugal (we all remember the results of the last election, when the Partido Popular was the third most voted) their representation is getting stronger. We focused, however, just in Holand and France, where those parties have more strengh.

In our role play, we mention the reasons for this new strength: immigration is the main problem; people think that immigrants are "stealing" jobs and their economical growth.

We wanted people to think about the subject, knowing what it implies, so we decided to show how an oppressive regime works, at least in school. This way, we would " feel in our skin" the consequences of that regime, with a little role play: Bernardo would play the Arckon (the main figure of the Authentocratic regime), I would be the teacher of the class, João Meira the Minister of Propaganda and Mario the bodyguard. Since Mario was sick, João ended up with both roles, his and Mario's. 

We created Authentocracy based on the oppressive regimes that already existed and exist, obviously, and we tried to bring it to the portuguese reality, always having in mind what is happening in the world.

During our role play, we tried to show how a class would work in one of those regimes, but, of course, we maybe exaggerated a little bit. However, I think that, with our different roles and the way we acted during the whole presentation, we showed what we wanted to show.

Like this, we only tried to make people think about the growth I talked above; I think we accomplished that part of our objectives.

It is important to reflect about this subjects, once we are the ones who are going to decide in the future; the choice is in our hands!

With this project, a debate was very interesting, so we could get to a general conclusion, or just discuss the different opinions we sure have in the class.

Concluding, I think that, as a group, we work better than the first time (way better!), and we achieved our objectives and the objectives of the general projects. This was a topic that "caught our eye" in the instant, and, since the beginning, we were always interested in doing our best.