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Yeah... I'm worried as well.
Both parties suck, but at least the other guy is actually of the centre-leaning, moderate wing of his party, and actually shares little enthusiasm for some of his party's more radical ideas.
Let's remind it's not the first time someone gets elected on South America expelling a huge amount of crap through their mouth. Paraguay had a president who has just left office, who said he would shoot his own balls if he had a homosexual son, and tried to change his country's Constitution to allow for his re-election indefinitely. In fact Paraguay was basically a far-right Venezuela for decades before the 90s, but somehow everyone forgot about that.
As most of the reactionary right-wing politicians in Brazil, Bolsonaro is little more than a crappier parody of the Republican party ideals under Trump. I don't think there'll be a dictatorship, but I bet he'll probably do most of the following:
1 - roll back regulations on pesticides and labels for transgenic products;
2 - accelerate the devastation of the Amazon rainforest in the name of beef and soybean;
3 - cut income tax for large companies;
4 - dole out national parks or indigenous land to European and American mining companies;
5 - try to insert "family" and "moralistic" values on the public education system, with probably some revisionism concerning the dictatorship;
6 - roll back protective measures to homosexuals and women etc. claiming those actually give "people unequal treatment";
7 - rant on Twitter against syndicalists or left-leaning parties everytime there's a major strike, or his ideas don't move forward in congress;
8 - roll back gun ownership regulations and tout he's sucessfully combating crime once prisons are even more overcrowded;
9 - claim time and time again his opponents are actually "communists" or "fake news" even if they come from the right or reliable media;
10 - probably try some authoritarian measure against the Supreme Court or popular representation in Congress, even though it'll possibly fail.
11 - claim he's being sabotaged once his hardline neo-liberalism approach fails like it did in Argentina (twice) and Mexico.
I'm sure we can survive that, though. I just mourn for the loss of biodiversity and all the extra cancer due to all the regulations going caput. Those we can't easily recover later, if at all... at least Mexico is, and Argentina is very likely moving leftwards the next year, same for Peru, Honduras and Guatemala, where their right-wing populists are facing jail or charges of corruption and fraud.
Last edited by haxxiy - on 10 October 2018
