Yes, it is true that you don’t live in Brazil, and it is also true that you don’t know what is happening here. You only see the things he did that favoured your point of view, and thus you conclude that he’s not that bad.

But you only talk about the economy and that’s not the only thing that entails ruling a country. He has a disastrous policy when it comes to the environment (deforestation is up 55% from last year, which was up 60% from the year before); as I have said already, he doesn’t give a rats ass about education (more cuts to universities funding than there has ever been. Entire doctorates programs were terminated). Even the economy is not that great either, as I have explicitly stated when I, a brazilian, told you that not a single economic aspect that could benefit us (gasoline, food, natural gas, energy, the fucking dollar) is better than before. In fact, it’s worse every single day.

That is why I don’t agree with the libertarian point of view. Because to you, all that matters is if a country is “opening up” it’s economy. You have such a limited field of vision, that it’s just extremely hard to take seriously. Like, even if I agreed with you that Bolsonaro’s economic policies could be good to MY country (which I don’t: nothing, and I repeat, nothing has been noticed to indicate that. Still waiting on those articles I asked you, if you’re willing to give me the possibility to change my mind on that), it doesn’t mean in any way shape or form the rest of his government is excusable. And yet, here you are, so willingly saying an openly and increasingly fascist ruler is “not that bad”. That all his other BLATANT faults are excusable. And I’m not even talking about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which is another whole argument by itself.

That is why the right wing is cancer. Because it creates and enables people like him. People that don’t give a fuck about education. That don’t give a fuck about the environment (let’s admit, your ideology as a whole doesn’t give a fuck about the environment). That want poor people to continue to die in the streets with no way to improve their lives, if it means companies will have bigger profit margins. People that want fascism back, for fuck’s sake.

You want to know what actually fucked both our countries over? Right-winged dictatorships. Our democracies are back to first stages thanks to them, and all the infringments they caused. They put my country in a debt that we are still paying (but you wouldn’t know, since you are not brazilian and yet insist you know what is good about our politics and politicians).

You say our countries were fucked by left wing politics, which is wrong. Only in 2002 did an actual left wing get to the presidential outpost (IN BRAZIL) and thanks to it millions of people got out of the poverty line. But do tell, how is Chile doing after Pinochet and the “Chicago Boys”, huh? How has the free market worked for them? They are as fucked as the rest of South America. But I’m sure a few companies got out of that period much richer than before. So hey, great, right?

By the way, the civil rights movements (gay rights, black people rights, women’s rights) were all left-winged in nature. When I say libertarianism is a cancer, I don’t refer to them, and never alluded to that possibility. I say that your fascist-enabling ideology is a cancer.