‘A coin flip’: on the campaign trail as Brazil’s far right edges back to power
www.theguardian.com
Neck-and-neck with Lula in polls, Flávio Bolsonaro fires up his base in the bellwether state of Minas Gerais – starting at the scene of his father’s stabbing
  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 hours ago

    Why do people keep voting for these ass-hats? They are never “for the people” and always try to grab more power that belongs to them.

    • ttayh@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      Cause

      • Lula’s term was a lukewarm nothing burguer

      • which shot itself on the foot year one by limiting how much the govmt can invest

      • Lula is campaigning as if it was 2022

      • both sides are campaigning on “least bad”

      • Out of 26 yrs in this millenium, Brasil had a Workers Party govnmt in 18. People want something different

      • Lula / PT work really hard to de-politise politics, and to be the only viable option on the left (by punching left)

      • Lula’s broad front is filled with ppl (senators, congressppl, etc) that are indistinguishable from Bolsonaro’s camp

      • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        don’t forget he just killed the huge working hours reduction bill people were pushing for that would pretty much guarantee his reelection.

        • ttayh@lemmy.zipEnglish
          0·
          3 hours ago

          And all the stuff happening wrt the supreme court. We could go on and on

          • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            52 minutes ago

            tbf the far right were the ones to somehow associate the supreme court with “the left”