Dinner Menu:
- Gnocchi à la crème et aux chanterelles à pieds jaunes
- Salade verte
- Yaourt de brebis et banane
- Carré de chocolat noir 92%
I was listening to BBC4 (the news radio channel) this morning while carrying out my morning routine and there was a Brazilian businessman talking about Bolsonaro's election. The man actually sounded quite reasonable he was explaining that he felt Brazil needed a new economic policy (more liberal of course) and that the PT was discredited because of its corruption. Although I was not entirely in agreement with his positions, I could understand his point and was articulate. But then the journalist asked him about Bolsonaro's anti-democratic and socially regressive positions and his answer was that "he didn't believe Bolsonaro would go through with those policies". This reminds me of what happened with Trump, many Republicans voted for him saying they thought he would be good for business and wouldn't do any of the crazy stuff. How is that a healthy democracy? Voting for a politician thinking that he will not carry out what he said he would do is nuts. I think politicians should be expected to spell out the top 10 priorities of their programme in simple words and then a requirement before voting would be that you explicitly agree to the priorities of the candidate you are voting for. No more "I didn't realise that's what he/she was going to do"!
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