{"id":39951,"date":"2018-10-31T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39951"},"modified":"2018-10-31T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:22:07","slug":"why-i-remain-hopeful-when-things-look-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39951","title":{"rendered":"Why I Remain Hopeful When Things Look Grim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/10\/30\/why-i-remain-hopeful-when-things-look-grim\/\">Why I Remain Hopeful When Things Look Grim<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-5491\" class=\"post-5491 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-brazil tag-caitlin-johnstone tag-hope tag-jair-bolsonaro tag-revolution\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/medium-14.jpg?fit=1080%2C608&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/medium-14.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/medium-14.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/medium-14.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/medium-14.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Hi. I\u2019m sorry to my regular readers for not writing any articles in the last couple of days; I\u2019ve just been staring transfixed at the fallout from the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and the words which normally come bubbling up on their own just haven\u2019t been there for me.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/brazil-presidential-election-who-jair-bolsonaro-popular-candidate-more-dangerous-ncna925011\">is a fascist<\/a>. I mean that in a very real, literal and non-alarmist way. I\u2019ve seen a lot of conservatives in both the US and Australia defending him as just another right wing nationalist like Donald Trump, which is partly due to the fact that he has been straightforwardly labeled the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/19\/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-presidential-candidate-trump-parallels\">Trump of the tropics<\/a>\u201d and the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/21\/opinion\/brazil-election-jair-bolsonaro.html\">Brazilian Donald Trump<\/a>\u201d by the English-speaking mass media, and partly due to the fact that the political left has been warning of the danger Bolsonaro poses using the exact same language they used to warn about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>So in a way it\u2019s understandable that the two men would be lumped into the same group in public perception. The right (the MAGA hat-wearing \u201cBuild the wall\u201d right, not the tiki torch-waving \u201cPinochet did nothing wrong\u201d right) would probably mostly object to Trump calling for a civil war in America in which tens of thousands of Americans would be rounded up and murdered, advocating the physical assault of homosexuals in the street, openly proclaiming that he wants America to be a dictatorship etc, but these are all things Bolsonaro <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/28\/jair-bolsonaro-elected-president-brazil\/\">has publicly spoken in favor of<\/a>. But because they\u2019ve been hearing him described using the exact same labels and dire warnings that were hyperbolically applied to Donald Trump, who <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/trump-minus-narrative-equals-bushbama-84a363947536\">minus the rhetoric<\/a> and hysteria has turned out to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/trumps-phony-anti-globalism\/\">fairly conventional Republican president<\/a>, conservatives assume Bolsonaro is fine. All the most severe linguistic tools were used up against Trump, so there were none left in the toolbox for Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I Remain Hopeful When Things Look Grim Hi. I\u2019m sorry to my regular readers for not writing any articles in the last couple of days; I\u2019ve just been staring transfixed at the fallout from the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and the words which normally come bubbling up on their own just haven\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[90,17039,7844,1491,22709],"class_list":["post-39951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-brazil","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-donald-trump","tag-fascism","tag-jair-bolsonaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39952,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39951\/revisions\/39952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}