The outcome for Lula’s party, PT (‘Workers’ party), was terrible for them. The right-wing now has a mandate in the senate. They’ll likely to be able to pursue the impeachment and removal of certain supreme court members, and rebuke the institution as a whole, which has dispensed with any pretense of being anything other than a tool to advance leftist policy.
Lula’s party now controls just 9/81 seats. Whereas Bolsonaro’s party controls 28/81. Minor parties control the remainder, ranging between 6 to 1. Many of these are right-wing or part of the maligned ‘Centrão’ which typically allies with whoever is the major party in power in transactional, self-interested exchanges of favors.
Follow up from a comment from me from yesterday. I got into it with leftys from Durham about the proposed Ad 3 here in Florida which will greatly reduce property taxes. Why leftys in NC care about such I don’t know. Anyway, the gist of their “argument” is that this is just another scheme to help the “rich” at the expense of the poor. Nevermind the data I showed that it will reduce property taxes for people with lower valued houses (which I assume are poor) to zero. Those with $2million+ homes will see a reduction but not significant in terms of percentage. I carves out schools, so no issue there. One wanted to know what waste could be cut, so I provided a link specifically for Jax. She then said, that’s because of all the Republicans in FL…I then hit her that the mayor of Jax is a Democrat…sigh…
So my question again is in the psychology of the left. They never define “rich”, but they certainly want to stick it to them. Why the great hatred (there’s that hate coming out of them again) of the”rich”. Class envy? They seem to want to blame all the ills of the world on the “rich”.
Anyone can give me some insight?
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The outcome for Lula’s party, PT (‘Workers’ party), was terrible for them. The right-wing now has a mandate in the senate. They’ll likely to be able to pursue the impeachment and removal of certain supreme court members, and rebuke the institution as a whole, which has dispensed with any pretense of being anything other than a tool to advance leftist policy.
Lula’s party now controls just 9/81 seats. Whereas Bolsonaro’s party controls 28/81. Minor parties control the remainder, ranging between 6 to 1. Many of these are right-wing or part of the maligned ‘Centrão’ which typically allies with whoever is the major party in power in transactional, self-interested exchanges of favors.
Follow up from a comment from me from yesterday. I got into it with leftys from Durham about the proposed Ad 3 here in Florida which will greatly reduce property taxes. Why leftys in NC care about such I don’t know. Anyway, the gist of their “argument” is that this is just another scheme to help the “rich” at the expense of the poor. Nevermind the data I showed that it will reduce property taxes for people with lower valued houses (which I assume are poor) to zero. Those with $2million+ homes will see a reduction but not significant in terms of percentage. I carves out schools, so no issue there. One wanted to know what waste could be cut, so I provided a link specifically for Jax. She then said, that’s because of all the Republicans in FL…I then hit her that the mayor of Jax is a Democrat…sigh…
So my question again is in the psychology of the left. They never define “rich”, but they certainly want to stick it to them. Why the great hatred (there’s that hate coming out of them again) of the”rich”. Class envy? They seem to want to blame all the ills of the world on the “rich”.
Anyone can give me some insight?