that’s crazy why are there no good young leftist leaders anymore what happened
because we had a brutal cia-backed dictatorship, who hunted, tortured and killed even suspected leftists for 20-ish years. they effectively killed mainstream leftism in brazil. i doubt the official death toll is accurate, as we never properly investigated it for too long and the pigs erased a lot of the records. most we found after the fact on clandestine burial grounds.
we are starting to see the beginnings of something resembling leftism again, but right now we will be stuck in the grindset work-while-they-sleep mentality for the foreseeable future.
Neoliberalism?
not following how that got rid of the good leftist leaders
like I get that all of ‘leftists’ are just neolibs but there are still commies out there
Idk it just seems like no leftists leaders in the west have been born after thatcher and Reagan. Didn’t get rid of the old ones, just waited for them to die and not get replacements
The Brazilian Right hasn’t found a successor to Bolsonaro either. We’re all lost, really, politics is meaningless, the so-called left does right wing stuff, the right wing panders superficially to the working class, up is down, down is up. I have zero hope of seeing any meaningful change in my country’s political class during my lifetime. There is pretty much no expressive political left in Brazil.
It’s a big bag of “Oops! All Liberals” and we have to eat it and be glad our latest coup plotters were stupid enough to take the proverbial notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy, or else we could have been living in the world’s dumbest military dictatorship where the ruling class has both the temperament and intelligence of a rabid Bully XL.
tarcisio is kind of looking like an option for them, a winnable one. pablo marçal looks more like the now classical brazilian fascist, but i don’t think he has a chance just yet. i trust the fascists will always have at least one viable option, though.
do you think we can get someone remotely center-left with fighting chance in there for, say, 2030? because i dont really think so. i can see another pretend-left term from lula, at best, then all downhill…
Liberal “democracy” and its consequences.
