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Don't think that the new bunch will be more corrupt. And that doesn't invalidate the replacement.
by woliveirajr 11y ago
Don't think that the new bunch will be more corrupt. And that doesn't invalidate the replacement.
- toyg 11y agoOh, they are already: "Cunha was caught last year with millions of dollars in bribes in secret Swiss bank accounts, after having falsely denied to Congress that he had any foreign bank accounts. Cunha also appears in the Panama Papers" - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/21/dilma-rousseff-enemies-impeached-brazil http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/21/dilma-r... My point is, from the perspective of an average voter, replacing a corrupt bunch with another corrupt bunch is a pointless exercise, so might as well send in the strongman. That's pretty much the standard scenario in which democracy dies (Weimar, fascist Italy, II French Republic, all the way back to Julius Caesar).
- woliveirajr 11y agoI stand correct. All those schemes you mention were also used by the ones that are being replaced, and for even nefarious goals, like being able to manipulate the elections and perpetuate in the government. If the new one just don't destroy the economy, or recover from inflation / unemployment, it has done more good than the previous one.
- coliveira 11y agoThe new replacement is certainly more corrupt, they're involved in all kinds of known schemes, such as the Panama papers, Car wash operation, laundered money on Swiss banks, connections with drug dealers... Just do a quick search.
- woliveirajr 11y agoI stand correct. All those schemes you mention were also used by the ones that are being replaced, and for even nefarious goals, like being able to manipulate the elections and perpetuate in the government.
- coliveira 11y agoI see, so your problem is not with corruption, you just want to replace the government with something that sees fit. Very representative of current Brazilian middle-class thinking.