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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 abo | |
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 fo | |
Bolsonaro. | |
Online and offline reaction has been very inflamed and violent som | |
times, for both sides. We have to choose between a rock and a hard | |
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 eac | |
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 goin | |
to get better either. |