A Different Kind of President?
Politics is generally polarising. Politicians are generally in it for status and power. It’s hard to find any politician who has a broad grasp of global reality.
I don’t know anything about President Lula of Brazil, but judging by this interesting interview conducted by Haaretz, I’d like to know more.
Brazil Leader Talks Middle East Peace
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Well, Lula is a complete 3rd world socialist-populist leader. But to understand that 80% acceptance one must be aware of brazil’s points of view and ways to do. Brazilian top classes: they love poor people, and use them to wash away their guilt.
Go there and you will find thera-tons of NGOs and social programs, you can get mad into oblivion if you try to read all of them!! They are in a never-ending talk about social democracy and how can it improve poor people’s lives… while eating tax money in subventions paying for the meals and plane tickets for international speakers (trust me, I were to be one of them). Results: thousands of R$ are spent in a permanent meat and sushi meeting for the “social agents” to design some future for the poor. But then there is no money left to implement anything that would came out of those meetings (if anything was to came out). And Lula’s popularity skyrocket (applause).
Lula also launched a plan consisting in giving away free milk coupons for the inhabitants of some favelas, in order to “feed the children and get malnutrition indexes down”. Results: parents sell milk coupons into the black market, forcing children to stay slimy to get even more coupons, and Lula’s popularity skyrocketed. (applause)
And finally, you have Lula tending a red carpet to Ahmadineyad, (and Chaves, Castro and Morales) in Brasilia, while the rest of the world starts to tremble, and then ‘wise Lula’ takes off his top hat and pulls out some words as if he was a school yard teacher talking to two naughty boys: “don’t steal his sandwiches!! Come on, shake hands and a hug, and I do not want this to happen again.” And Lula’s popularity skyrockets. (applause and credits)
Well, thanks for that info and clarification!
Congratulations, you just lost the last bit of respect I had for you David.
Now why would that be Andre? Because I said I wanted to know more about Lula (because as of writing I knew nothing about him), or because I approve of his desire (as per the Haaretz article) to see the Middle East conflict sorted out via talking and negotiating rather than war and violence?