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[–] 42yeah@eviltoast.org 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

How is this possible when his dad just attempted a coup d’état? Do they have some really popular policies, or is Lula failing at somewhere?

[–] ttayh@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

Cause

  • Lula's term was a lukewarm nothing burguer

  • which shot itself on the foot year one by limiting how much the govmt can invest

  • Lula is campaigning as if it was 2022

  • both sides are campaigning on "least bad"

  • Out of 26 yrs in this millenium, Brasil had a Workers Party govnmt in 18. People want something different

  • Lula / PT work really hard to de-politise politics, and to be the only viable option on the left (by punching left)

  • Lula's broad front is filled with ppl (senators, congressppl, etc) that are indistinguishable from Bolsonaro's camp

[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Lula is no saint. His party is involved in a ton of corruption schemes. The last 4 years saw the economy in "stagflation": low growth, high inflation, high interest rates. People don't see any meaningful change in the past 4 years.

If Lula's party (worker's party) didn't suppress the other left parties in the last 20 years, there would be a viable alternative. The election now is like 5 candidates from th right, each worse than the other, vs Lula. If you don't like Lula and want to oust his party, your only option is basically fascism.

"What would you prefer sir, the current corrupt government and feeling insecure to leave your home due to crime, or the fascist that promises to shoot bandits and will become the new corrupt government?"