This is a relief. This plus Vucic losing in Serbia has made for a pretty good day
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Good to see Lula did not let the right-wingers walk all over him and rig the elections without fighting back.
The time for playing nice with cheating foreign agents is over.
The American billionaires aren't going to like their right wing puppet lost
By a whooping 1.5% difference, we haven't got a mob boss on the head of the executive power, with an aligned congress and the capacity of putting 2 judges on the supreme court and get a majority there.
So... whew... our democracy will only die slowly now. Beats dying quickly.
A whopping 10 million more people voted for Lula in this second turn of the election, and he had a 4 million voters lead on Flávio. That's not a bad number. Now our job is to push the government in prosecuting all the mayors and secretaries involved in undermining the election.
So the good guys won but didn't win hard enough for your tastes.
Just take the W and have a nice night. Now there's an opportunity for improvement, that's a good thing.
Look at the United States.
Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020.
And remember the cheering, and the relief, and the way people felt on that day.
Never forget that day.
It was indeed a good day.
It later got squandered, sure. But that day was good.
There's some differences. Bolsonaro was actually arrested, while the US was too afraid to arrest Trump.
Now if only British Columbia hadn't put the conservatives in power there.
On the plus side, from what I've read they're mostly old fashioned sane conservatives rather than Trumpian lunatics. Some of them are on the far right edge but hopefully the rest will keep them in check, the party's actual policies aren't too bad.
The most "sane" conservative policies are still murderous.
Their electoral priorities are to cut sex education and hamstring indigenous treaty negotiations, which is nkt a promising start.
Just the old fashioned neoliberalism we have come to love? Let's let the good times trickle down!
I'm glad for this and enough good people showed up this time. It shouldn't be so close though in all these elections, but the lies work. Canada had to back away from the edge last time and others have still gone to the authoritarian bs. They spread the propaganda more than ever to keep winning with their lies so don't fall for it. See that history shows their ways suck long-term and healthy ways proven in other countries are the way to go. Stay the course of proven healthy policies and demand better! Swinging back and forth is like a wrecking ball, and can't rebuild as fast as destroy. Think critically, refute the propaganda, use Sagan's baloney detection kit to understand accurately, read Democracy In Chains, you can do better!!
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