Bolsonaro didn't win in the first round of the elections, but got a million more votes than last time.
Some of the worst, most vile pieces of human filth who ensured that we lost more than half a million people during the pandemic... were also elected. People seem to mostly vote for people whose names they can identify among the literal hundreds of candidates nobody has ever heard of. Liberal media has been blaring these names on repeat for the past four years, and today we're seeing the results of platforming this filth. Whoops! Totally not intentional, sorry about that.
Our entire congress is now full of covid deniers, chuds, religious fundamentalists, conservative subcelebrities, only the worst of the worst - we managed to outdo ourselves and our last major election cycle was when we elected the most right-wing congress since the dictatorship years.
We elected a health minister who was the butt of plenty of jokes because of how incompetent he was. We elected the piece of shit judge that put Lula in jail on spurious charges, and we also elected his main co-conspirator, a shitty, incompetent local DA. We elected the environment minister who supervised the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. We elected them. The people chose willingly to either keep these people in power, or to make them even more powerful.
Even if Lula wins in the second round (as he probably will), he will be besieged from day one, and will probably be impeached or worse. Then we'll get his vice-president, a right-wing liberal who was a major opponent until not very long ago. He'll just play along with the rest of the human garbage that's now our political sphere. Even if Bolsonaro loses, bolsonarismo wins.
I thought I'd be able to joker-laugh at what's happened here today, but... I can't. I simply can't. This is my country circling the drain, without any semblance of an organized worker's movement. No unions, no strikes, no protests, no rights. We expected some kind of relief, reprieve from the utter destruction and concession of our country to the worst of the worst in capitalism, and we got... this.
It's really hard to be here right now. I'm this close to selling everything, packing my bags and saying goodbye to my beautiful home, because it's now more than ever being ransacked and sold to the highest bidder. I'm done. I'm not even jokerfied, I've just switched fully into doomer mode. This country is finished. It's theirs now, to do as they please.
There is now no way out for this country that doesn't involve lots of [REDACTED].
:sadness-abysmal:
Lula might win, but Bolsonaro will win harder. When Lula takes the presidency (if he even wins on the second round...) he will have an "hostile parliament", he wont be able to do much, he'll have to compromise A LOT in order to achieve anything and hang on until the next election cycle (mid-terms I think are in 2024). Bolsonaro *might * lose this election, but his base is intact, well it actually grew.
This is it sadly, South American leftists and progressives fell asleep, took a really nice and long siesta and allowed (some say willingly) the defeated right-wing movements to make a comeback. It's a real battleground here. And now I feel like the left is in a state of shock, and has been for quite a while now. It's happening pretty much everywhere, here in Argentina we're brewing our very own Bolsonaro and few are even trying to stop it. The global context doesn't help either, not long ago the Fascist elected in Italy spoke with the Spanish Far-Right party "Vox" on "how we should help those in South America fighting against Communism right now", once again, foreign and local actors gearing up to make us all disappear. Our very own existence is at risk, this takes us back to the 1970s.
Not all is lost though: Organize, if we stand still they win, if we organize they lose. Nothing is easy, there will be a lot of violence, but do we have any other way out? Our generation, my generation, is pretty much gone, but there's still some fight inside of us. We might not establish a just system ourselves, we might not get to live in a Communist world, but we can certainly fight for the future generations that will.
why tho?