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I Love Lula!
Give ’em hell, Luiz!!!
Gushing fangirl alert. If you’re looking for hard facts and well-grounded research, I suggest that Caitlin Johnstone is your cuppa (she’s certainly mine!). But if you, like me, think that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is just the dreamiest then you, my friend, are in the right place.
The man has my heart.
The country of Brazil isn’t widely recognized for producing honest, plain-spoken leaders (tell me what country is), but Lula puts every single public servant currently holding office in the United States to shame. Even Saint Bernie can’t hold a candle to the integrity, determination, and honor that Lula has repeatedly demonstrated over the course of his life. Wait? What? Lula took bribes and kickbacks? The hell you say.
Well, duh.
The man looked at the state of his people, the mess his country was in, and made a conscious choice to swim in the filth. He did so with a very specific objective which he seems to have accomplished. Lula’s policies are largely responsible for having lifted 30,000,000 people out of extreme poverty. That’s not nothing.
Moreover, this is a guy who headed to prison with an approval rating Biden can only dream of attaining.
“In the venerable Brazilian tradition, Lula’s Workers’ Party dangled government contracts…
