Glenn Greenwald on Bolsonaro's Victory, Democracy Now
In two parts:
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Part 2: Democratic Values & Human Rights Are At Risk in Brazil
I understand and agree with Greenwald's explanation of why non-rich people, or really anyone, voted for Bolsonaro, but there is a ton of personal responsibility to go around: each and every person who voted for Bolsonaro out of "desperation" (or even, desperation) fucked up royally, and for every one who did, there's at least 0.7 who didn't.
Like, somehow, my not-all-that-unracist, high-school educated, now passed-on father-in-law took one look at Trump and said, Fuck no. Ditto my aunt-in-law. So, if others fell for it, that's on them. As my wife said, supporting Trump is a character flaw, and that's exactly correct.
So, both/and: it's both the fault of each and every voter for the far-right this past decade or more, and it's also true, at the populational, historical level, that neoliberalism breeds a far-right reaction in countries where a progressive diagnosis, let alone solution, simply never really materialized.
And that lack of materialization is also due to structural factors--and to idiot Lefties, including myself, who somehow, as Varoufakis has rightly said, couldn't fucking get it together during and after the crash to make the case.
Unfair? Who said life was fair? We need to get our shit together, like, thirty years ago, and fast.
I understand and agree with Greenwald's explanation of why non-rich people, or really anyone, voted for Bolsonaro, but there is a ton of personal responsibility to go around: each and every person who voted for Bolsonaro out of "desperation" (or even, desperation) fucked up royally, and for every one who did, there's at least 0.7 who didn't.
Like, somehow, my not-all-that-unracist, high-school educated, now passed-on father-in-law took one look at Trump and said, Fuck no. Ditto my aunt-in-law. So, if others fell for it, that's on them. As my wife said, supporting Trump is a character flaw, and that's exactly correct.
So, both/and: it's both the fault of each and every voter for the far-right this past decade or more, and it's also true, at the populational, historical level, that neoliberalism breeds a far-right reaction in countries where a progressive diagnosis, let alone solution, simply never really materialized.
And that lack of materialization is also due to structural factors--and to idiot Lefties, including myself, who somehow, as Varoufakis has rightly said, couldn't fucking get it together during and after the crash to make the case.
Unfair? Who said life was fair? We need to get our shit together, like, thirty years ago, and fast.