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Brazil, like most of South (and now perhaps north too?) America suffers from macho populism. A lot of character politicians with tough messages, empty promises
by mavdi 8y ago
Brazil, like most of South (and now perhaps north too?) America suffers from macho populism. A lot of character politicians with tough messages, empty promises and sadly the population just falls for it every time.
These stats, along with others, is the result of years of populism, corruption and neglect.
- ulzeraj 8y agoLet’s ignore the fact that the last president was a woman and that this is the direct result of her party disastrous administration. Blame machismo. It always works.
- forinti 8y agoThe lower house has 513 members and 54 women. The senate has 81 members and 13 women. Only 12% of mayors are women. Dilma was the first and only female president.
- ulzeraj 8y agoI love how you still hold on to the narrative that if we elect women all the problems will go away when in Brazil female politicians like Dilma Housseff and Gleisi Hoffman are pretty much as corrupt as their male counterparts.
- lostlogin 8y agoYour first point is a good one. However I don’t think you can blame one administration with all this mess surely?
- ulzeraj 8y agoNot one but 3 and a half. Her predecessor from the same party ruled for 8 years and she was president for 6 years before being impeached for fiscal embezzlement. So yeah... 12 years in which crime rates skyrocketed.
- forinti 8y agoCrime reduction in 1992 (in the US) is attributed by some to Roe v Wade (1972). It took 20 years. The young people who are dying now (guns deaths hit the young and poor the worst) were born at the end of the 1990s and start of 2000s, which was a period of high unemployment and even famine (300 children died of malnutrition per day in 2001).
- lostlogin 8y agoThere is a competing theory to Roe V Wade, lead poisoning. A HN regular is the Mother Jones article, and it makes a compelling argument. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
- mavdi 8y agohttp://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2017/4/women-in-politics-2017-map http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2017/... https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017 https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...
- tomcam 8y agoGood point. America elected macho populist Barack Obama twice, and macho populist Hillary Clinton took the popular vote.
- cambalache 8y agoThe world is not an Ivy League campus. It is kinda insulting you think this is the cause of crime.