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It's everyone's fault
2018.10.13 12:30:21 CEST
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Some of you might have read my brief mention of the Brazilian
elections or seen the John Oliver segment on Last Week Tonight about
these elections. The first round ended with one big surprise: the
conservative candidate (Bolsonaro) had 46% of the valid votes.
People already expected Bolsonaro and Haddad to go head-to-head
during the second round of votes, but few expected such large
numbers. Polls for the second round point towards a 60/40 split for
Bolsonaro.
Online and offline reaction has been very inflamed and violent some
times, for both sides. We have to choose between a rock and a hard a
place - I honestly can't support either of them, but I understand
arguments for and against each one. To me, the biggest looser is
going to be everyone.
There is no rational dialog. Scratch that. There is no dialog.
It is not surprising the public is becoming more polarized and each
side can't understand the other.
Maybe living abroad has made it easier to see or it's just much of
what I am learning about Swiss society, how it manages to have
frequent referendums and still not collapse with all the opposing
view-points disagreeing so often.
It doesn't matter who wins. All Brazilians, we lost. It's not going
to get better either.