| Vincoletto said: Yet, how can people properly choose their leaders if they dont have the proper education and knowledge to do it? Most of the population is very poor and of course targets of populism specially if you promise to give them something like a house, money or whatever. Thats why usually you see that in richer areas populism is much weaker than in poor areas. So when you say "lets take back Petrobras from the capitalist pigs americans, the oil is ours" I understand why people believe it and go with those ideas. Its easy to appeal. Just education and knoledge can counter it. Anyway... lets wait and see what will happen in the future. |
The part in bold is the biggest issue, by far. But I think the people are learning that the current politicians are all crooks. Now, they have to understand that, in the next election, they shouldn't vote for these crooks.
Brazilians with more education are quickly moving to more Liberal approaches, focusing on decrease state intervention and reducing the bureaucracy in the country. I think this approach may start to gain traction with the general public due to the discredit of the political class. Then the people will understand that our government is too incompetent and corrupt to provide anything, so we should at least pay less taxes and have to deal with less bureaucracy.
I also think that the big entrepreneurs should have a bigger involvement with politics. If the government insists on failing budget targets, they will drag the economy down more and companies will suffer. Political parties like the Novo should receive more support from this segment of the society. It's in their interests and the general public will also benefit from increased industrial activity. While I'm not a big fan of the MBL approach, I also recon that they brought awareness to the Liberal cause.
We got some big improvements already. The labor reform at least included the co-responsibility of legal costs, so now a worker that starts a lawsuit for no valid reason has to pay the costs if he loses. Half of the labor lawsuits in the world used to happen in Brazil. The early 2018 reports point to a reduction of 50% to 60% and that's an amazing result.
