I already wanted to post something about the electoral situation in Brazil, this article was the last straw. (+)
If in the US, with more active organizations and institutions, more resources, more supervision, it suffers from the anti-scientific and anti-ethical arbitrariness of these conservative policies, I can not even imagine what we will suffer here from 2019 onwards...
Well, first of all, know a little bit about the candidate who may be our future president.
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This compilation of videos is a small sample of what he is. A man who has been a federal deputy for 28 years, but poses as the outsider of politics. A man whose three (of the five) children also have political mandates.
A man who, being a retired captain, was arrested by the Army for indiscipline, for not respecting hierarchy and for planning a terrorist attack to guarantee salary readjustments ("Operation Dead End").
In his life as a parliamentarian, he has always incited violence, hatred, and misinformation, repeatedly advocating for torture and murdering of political opponents, critics, and prosecutors. In 28 years, he presented almost 200 bills, but only two were approved.
Most projects have a military or security-related link. Of the 10 health-related projects, one focused on banning abortion in cases of rape (one of only two cases our Penal Code permits).
His political physiology is not new but becomes more grandiose with his quest for the presidency. In 2016, in the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Bolsonaro speaks in favor of her condemnation and brutally honors Colonel Ustra...
... responsible during the military dictatorship of 1964-1985 for the apparatus of repression, torture, and assassination for the regime. At the same time, he was baptized by an evangelical pastor in the Jordan River in Israel.
Today the polls show that Bolsonaro wins in the strata of men, white, more schooled and with higher income. It also wins among evangelicals (with more than 60% approval).
The new merchants of the temple massively support his candidacy. They use TVs, preaching, prayers, and the constant spread of false news to guarantee his election.
The campaign uses many bots on Twitter to inflate his acceptance, as well as illegal marketing (hired by many companies, which sets up electoral fraud in current legislation) to maintain this huge network of fake news within WhatsApp.
The number of one of his son was blocked days ago by the company. Multiple Facebook groups and pages have been blocked or deleted.
This way of doing politics, in the Cambridge Analytica style, was already expected - but it had devastating effects, difficult to track, and more complicated to combat.
Especially because the legal class of the country is apathetic, ingrained, and partial to all these clear risks for our recent democracy. They are select groups who still believe that we'll not be thrown into the abyss with the election of this repeatedly authoritarian candidate.
Out of disgust with PT, the center-left party that ruled the country from 2002 to 2016, they risk a candidature that has always wounded the democratic pacts. Our corruption is endemic. Our state of crisis also is.
We are an underdeveloped, colonial country, genocidal with its traditional populations, racist and homophobic, conservative and hypocritical in customs.
A country that prefers to bet on the deforestation of the Amazon for planting and exporting soy, rather than diversifying its techniques, knowledge, and actions.
Our science and technology are dying, as well as our popular knowledge, minority cultures, common sense, and cordiality.
The Bolsonaro campaign is to turn back 50 years ago, to return to a country of the 60's, admiring values, beliefs, and models that no longer live up to modern times. Our present has been transformed more and more into the past.
Facing our failure as a so-called inclusive and welcoming nation is to accept that our precariousness did not begin in the last decade, with the possible mistakes of the PT, but which actually come from old ways: from a christian, enslaver, oligarchic and corrupt colonization.
That lasts until today. I do not see easy alternatives to get out of this conservative and authoritarian wave, especially because of our national history. As well for the global conjuncture.
Personally, I fear for my physical and mental integrity, for my future as an anthropologist who researches gender and sexuality, for my lgbtqi family. The spaces are surrounded, even with the will to resist, to imagine, to live.
There are other videos of him, with subtitles, some in favor, but honestly even those show the absurd. Like this one:
