Friday, November 2, 2018

Bolsonaro: primarily a counterrevolution from the rich?

For all the discussions about corruption, the anti-PT vote and Bolsonaro as another Trump, I think these two graphs summarized as well as anything what may have happened in Brazil.  The first one reveals the growth of income between 2002 and 2014 for different groups of the population. The second, the vote that Bolsonaro (in blue) and Haddad (in red) received depending on the income level of the municipality. The upper middle class, which had not won much from the PT years, got upset and tired and decided to vote for somebody else.  One of the saddest things is that this group of the population should be more opened and liberal... and ended up voting for the most iliberal candidate possible. 



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