Reuters is spinning this as if the majority of Brazil is bigoted, homophobic and misogynist.
(Reuters) – Far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, promising to clean up politics, shrink the state and crack down on crime, in a dramatic swing away from the left in the world’s fourth-largest democracy.
The former army captain, with close ties to the military, has alarmed many with pledges to sweep political opponents off the map and comments denigrating women, gays and racial minorities. In his first public comments after a landslide victory, he vowed to respect democratic principles.
So, he’s getting the Trump treatment. Rejecting leftism means you’re a horrible person.
Yea, thank God he won. I was rooting for him.
Fur, I’ve been watching Brazil. Maybe there is some hope, but we’ll never, ever be able to relax again (like in the 50’s). But just for fun I searched out democracies. You guessed it…US isn’t considered a true democracy now. All EU countries are the models. Check out the trans-internet anti-American bias by searching. And look at this drivel:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/02/which-are-the-worlds-strongest-democracies/
But we are NOT a “democracy” – we’re a Representative Republic.
Thank God for our founders for keeping us from that insanity.
My neighbor to the east is Brazilian, super nice guy! He spent most of the summer in Brazil. As much as I want to dig deeper into what he thinks about the political problems/crime in Brazil. It appears he’s well off enough to fly over the situation.
I enjoy the awesome coffee he brought back!
Democracy vs a Republic Perfectly Explained For Dummies
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/democracy-vs-a-republic-perfectly-explained-for-dummies
There’s a reason why the American founders created a republic, and not a democracy. Republics are the best form of government for protecting the individual from the tyranny of the majority. And there most certainly is a tyranny of the majority that always manifests in democratic style systems.
Here’s how it works: In democracies, the 51% rules over the 49% and has total control. The 51% can do whatever it wants, because in democracies there are not structures in place to protect individual rights.
If 51% vote to steal your bike, you are without a bike. If 51% vote to kill you, you are out of a life. It does not matter if it is right or not, what the majority says is what happens.
A republic is different though, and it operates for the protection of the individual against the majority when they get out of control. It is very important to protect the rights of the individual in a political system, for that is how governments are limited in their power and scope.
Democracies provide arbitrary power to governments, giving them prerogative to do anything as long as “it’s what the people want.” In a free society, this is unacceptable.
Republican governments operate by electing officers who represent the interests of the people, and who are supposed to have more knowledge about politics than the average person. These people are effectively trustees of the citizenry.
In republican governments, the polity is governed by a written constitution that safeguards certain rights against tyrannical majorities. There are separations of power, courts, and layers of government to ensure that knee-jerk reactions do not become law.
This is the fundamental difference between a republic and a democracy: a republic protects you from arbitrary power, a democracy is nothing but arbitrary power.
Why does the Left want such arbitrary power in the hands of an unlimited government?
Answer: because they literally want to be enslaved.
@CATO: No, they want to enslave others. It just never occurs to them that the public policies they demand will gradually enslave them as well.
Chris Cassone, they aren’t models; they’re horrible examples.
Just a recap,
Rothchilds,
Soros,
Reuters,
AP,
US Congress
Lazy US MSM,
rinse, repeat,
LOL! My family and friends in Brazil are very happy!
American Twitter feels like 2016 again. Oh joy!
From what I read he has been a politician for a long time. I lived in Brazil for 28 years and I had never heard of him until few years ago.
This is the first time I’m seeing this clip.
**Rough Language**
https://twitter.com/trumpsters45/status/1056691490913628161?s=21
And a plague of Common Sense began to sweep the Globe…
Val –
Great clip…i hope he stays safe. He done upset the apple cart.