> This is how democracy dies. People distrusting the system so hard they destroy it.
Funny. Reminds me of the last time I visited Brazil. In the last day I heard someone justifying voting for Bolsonaro by saying "things are so bad that I just want someone who will destroy everything".
It's weird, they think things can't get any worse. In my country, union got us 7% raise in 3 years, thats 4% if you discount union membership cost and people talk about leaving union "because it's not worth it".
Without union we get nothing and people before us had to fight to get us these rights and now some people want to throw it away because they didn't get big enough raise.
Bolsonaro is a symptom of the same disease as Trump. At least he's ineligible until 2030. Who would have thought that Brazil would have stronger democratic institutions?
That really caught me by surprise. On the other hand, this is mostly to the credit of their Supreme Court, and one can argue it's one judge doing the most work... so it's all probably quite fragile :/
Funny. Reminds me of the last time I visited Brazil. In the last day I heard someone justifying voting for Bolsonaro by saying "things are so bad that I just want someone who will destroy everything".