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O pobre de direita: A vingança dos bastardos
WHY DO THE POOR VOTE FOR THE RIGHT?
📍This is the question Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza answers in his book The Right-Wing Poor: The Revenge of the Bastards (2024), and his answer is uncomfortable: it was never about economics.
📍According to Souza, what drives millions of poor people to vote for the far right is not their wallets: it is humiliation, resentment, and the desire for revenge against a system that despises them. Someone who has felt humiliated all their life clings to the leader who promises to settle scores — and ends up voting against their own interests.
📍The book studies the two major groups that supported Bolsonaro: poor whites in southern Brazil and São Paulo, and Black evangelicals in the urban peripheries. And it offers a figure: according to Datafolha, Bolsonaro led with 43% among those earning between 2 and 5 minimum wages.
📍This Sunday Brazil chooses its president in a runoff, with a statistical tie (Quaest: Flávio 45% / Lula 44%). This book helps explain what lies beneath those numbers.
📄 We have left the complete book in Spanish in the first comment on this post, so everyone can read and discuss it. An honest warning: it is a machine translation and contains errors, but the content is quite understandable.
Is this phenomenon unique to Brazil? Does it recur in other countries? We look forward to your comments.
Description by Joshua Suarez.
Editorial note: The text above is a supplied recommendation, not the publisher’s synopsis. References to “this Sunday” and “the first comment” belong to the original post; the original post and Spanish file links were not supplied. Electoral figures and timing have not been independently verified.
📍This is the question Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza answers in his book The Right-Wing Poor: The Revenge of the Bastards (2024), and his answer is uncomfortable: it was never about economics.
📍According to Souza, what drives millions of poor people to vote for the far right is not their wallets: it is humiliation, resentment, and the desire for revenge against a system that despises them. Someone who has felt humiliated all their life clings to the leader who promises to settle scores — and ends up voting against their own interests.
📍The book studies the two major groups that supported Bolsonaro: poor whites in southern Brazil and São Paulo, and Black evangelicals in the urban peripheries. And it offers a figure: according to Datafolha, Bolsonaro led with 43% among those earning between 2 and 5 minimum wages.
📍This Sunday Brazil chooses its president in a runoff, with a statistical tie (Quaest: Flávio 45% / Lula 44%). This book helps explain what lies beneath those numbers.
📄 We have left the complete book in Spanish in the first comment on this post, so everyone can read and discuss it. An honest warning: it is a machine translation and contains errors, but the content is quite understandable.
Is this phenomenon unique to Brazil? Does it recur in other countries? We look forward to your comments.
Description by Joshua Suarez.
Editorial note: The text above is a supplied recommendation, not the publisher’s synopsis. References to “this Sunday” and “the first comment” belong to the original post; the original post and Spanish file links were not supplied. Electoral figures and timing have not been independently verified.
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