Meanwhile, mainstream media is losing its influence. Society has lost its former cohesion. Political parties and trade unions, which once gave meaning to political projects and ideologies, no longer draw support and solidarity. As a result, people’s political choices are often guided by messages generated by their social networks. And when the corruption of political parties, statesmen and leaders is exposed, anger against politicians overshadows all other concerns. That is exactly what happened here in Brazil.Yesterday, Brazil elected a leader, Jair Bolsonaro, who out trumps our current president. He’s openly misogynistic, homophobic and has a stated opinion that minorities must bow to the majorities. He wants to seize land set aside for indigenous people. This land would be in the Amazon rain forest. He has announced his desire for increased mining, drilling and agriculture in the forest, as well as putting a paved road through it. He also has plans to withdraw from the Paris climate accords.
All of the above is not good for the planet. The UN report on climate change said we have twelve years to do change our emissions to keep temperatures from rising two degrees. That’s pretty much the cut off for catastrophic changes to the planet.
So, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
With the events of this past week and our moron president's apathetic and self absorbed responses it is hard to believe there is another one out there. Sad.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see what happens in the Mid Term elections. The future is not looking good.
ReplyDeleteHuh...who would have known that Social Media, not Communism, would be the undoing of democracy.
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