Today, Brazil, a country with a constitution that is only 30 years old, buried its democracy.
Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) built his political career by preaching about hating minorities. Now he is in charge of the 5th most populous country on earth.
Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) built his political career by preaching about hating minorities. Now he is in charge of the 5th most populous country on earth.
Here in Brazil we (sometimes jokingly) refer to Election Day as “the party (as in, festivity) of democracy”. Bolsonaro, a military man who believes minorities should bow to the majority, puts the very foundation of our country at risk
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Bolsonaro believes gay people should be beaten, that women should earn less, that the brutal dictatorship that ruled Brazil for over 2 decades should’ve killed more.
More on it here: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
More on it here: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
He sells himself as an outsider, but has over 30 years of public life (and achieved close to nothing). He rose to stardom due to his incendiary rhetoric and explicit hate towards minorities. His government plan was a 81 page PowerPoint with little to no proposals in sight.
Many of those who vote for him believe he will be able to solve “everything” - whatever that means. That the fact that Bolsonaro boasts about not knowing economics is excusable. That his lack of dexterity in politics should be encouraged
Bolsonaro has said that the only way of “changing things around” would be by “having a civil war and killing 30,000”. He openly praises Ustra, a military general who ran one of the many torture houses during the dictatorial period. agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/geral/notic…
The same guy who said these words is now praying live on national television, mind you
Bolsonaro boasts about not knowing much about economics, and how his right arm Paulo Guedes (a University of Chicago alumni) will take care of everything Paulo Guedes has never worked with economics in the context of public service, and has no feasible political plan.
Bolsonaro doesn't have supporters, he has a cult. Even if you lay out facts, they will cry "fake news" They questioned the German Embassy in Brazil when it posted a video about Nazism being right wing They argued that Nazism was "left wing" and called the Embassy communist
This election finally shatters the myth of Brazil being progressive. I've been to many places in my life and I know that is a widespread idea amongst folks abroad. That is wrong. Brazil is deeply conservative, still. And the fact that Bolsonaro won proves it.
