I knew you were Brazilian but I didn't realise you were in the north east, the stronghold of corrupt socialists and gangsters. That's a rough life. At least southern Brazil has some areas which are relatively more respectable.
Yep, life in the Northeast is tough, but doable. It's hot as fuck, and as I mentioned, the old horse halter's vote rule still stands, even if not enforced by law. It's thanks to our region that Lula da Silva, our former thief-in-law, is still pretty popular, and so is the left wing, not so much for their progressive stances and more because they implanted a welfare system that helps them barely go by their toughest times. The man is still treated as some sort of divinity thanks to this.
And the southern parts are only respectable by a technicality. This year is also regional election year down here. While the southernmost states are a bit of a stronghold of the right-wing, there are places where the left also managed to take over, most famously the Rio Grande do Sul state. The current poll leader for the race of the Mayor seat of Porto Alegre, the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul, is Manuela D'Ávila, long-life self-professed communist who was the vice-president candidate under Fernando Haddad's seat, who you may know was the main opponent to Jair Bolsonaro, our current spazzy prez. I live in the state of Ceará, where the so-called new face of the national left wing lives. His name is Ciro Gomes, and he's basically a fusion of the worst parts of Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump. Take of it what you will.
It's been a long while since the political left has been dictating the state's goings, and that's because two of our most notorious politicians, namely Getúlio Vargas and Leonel Brizola, came from there. Nevermind that Vargas had sympathies with the causes of Hitler and Mussolini, he's still used as a prop for the local left-wing cronies as an example of policies that benefitted the working class, especially after he decided to send a full army regiment to combat the aforementioned dictators in order to secure the US's strategic allyship. It was under him that several of our state-owned companies were funded, such as Petrobras and Vale (the latter of which was privatized to save themselves a shitload of debt) and our Labour Laws were built. Same with Brizola: Certain righties will blame him for the downfall of the state of Rio de Janeiro, where he took political refuge after the military coup of 1964, and since his times, Rio de Janeiro has been a hellhole of terrible administration after another.
Trust me, Brazilian politics are a goddamn mess, and all it does is divide our already-divided coexistence.