Comrades from around the world, what country are you from and how's the political situation in them?

Comrades from around the world, what country are you from and how's the political situation in them?

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"America" should answer both questions

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Mexico
Shit, the "leftist" candidate is a socdem at most, thanks america

Lopez Obrador is super shit tbh. Idk who are you talking about tho.
and the only advantage of Ricardo Anaya is that he is young, the idiot might legalize weed but I don't think so, his Party sucks dick.

poland
leftism is dead on arrival here

Yeah im talking about amlo, anaya's party is fucking trash but at least they created the social security system. We are all boned though

Brazil.

Save for a short-lived mild left president in the 60s, whom unsurprisingly got couped, we had our first nominally left government in 2003 up until 2016, when it ended in a palace coup. It was, to sum up, crap. Yet it was one of the best regimes we ever had, because the bar is just that low. So then, the government turned out to be a hair away from center towards the left, as the only they they did to that effect was expand the welfare net. That's about it. Otherwise, they continued the same old neoliberal, dependentist bullshit. Worst of all, they ended up becoming corrupt fucks too, and hogged the goods without inviting the old elite.

Big mistake. The temporarily dislodged elite always nurtured a bilious hatred towards this elected leftist party, because of its past as a genuinely proletarian party started by unions and social movements which did fight the system long ago. That old class hatred, plus not being invited back to the money trough, plus 14 years away from power – a lot for a group which in it for almost 502 years – meant the old elite was baying at the moon. Its media (i.e. almost the entire damn media) tried smearing the first leftist president for ages, but he was bulletproof. Their persecution actually fed into his discourse about them hounding him because he was fighting the old, corrupt elite. The second president wasn't smooth at all, but still had enough prestige by proxy to get by. Then the elite found its silver bullet in the form of a massive anti-corruption operation, the kind that should have happened decades ago already. Nonetheless, the amount of present and former elected officials indicted in at least one investigation is staggering, and some of them are already in jail.

However, the media focused on the leftist party in power, as the former president was caught in the investigation, and the current one was suspicious. Every damn day, in almost every damn news outlet, it was the same old shit. Using that opportunity, they conflated the charges levied against the former and current presidents with those levied against a million other suspects, and used them in order to smear not just them but the entire party (cue that class hatred), as well as a lot of the old baseless invective.

Several months of this ended up working. The current president was impeached on flimsy, technical rules, because the big investigation didn't have anything solid on her, and it would take a long time until a trial anyway. The congressmen who voted for that, many of whom were being investigated, did so while making hypocritical speeches about honesty and the honor of public office. The vice president, from a centrist, arrivist party, turned on her even before the impeachment started. And in his first appearance as president, there he is, surrounded by all the familiar faces of the old elite's political arm. And again, many of whom, including the now-president himself, were under investigation.

Not long afterwards, very damning proof surfaced against the new president, and the media, strangely enough, started bashing him, as well as one of the higher-ups of the old elite and potential presidential candidate. It was obvious that hidden powers decided to throw them to the lions. So now the president is much more compromised than his "leftist" predecessor, and has several impeachment requests against him in congress. Surprising no one, he already evaded too, one because the Supreme Court's casting vote was made by a very close friend of his, and the other because the congressmen that impeached the predecessor because they defend honesty were now voting against impeachment because they defended stability.

So, the new government of the old elites is having some infighting, and might or might not fall. The corruption charges against the leftist party, amplified by the smear campaign, utterly ruined its popularity, and they buttfucked in the following mayoral elections. The first president, however, still has a lot of sway with the lower classes, tho he lost all support from middle class and upwards. Unfortunately for him, the charges against him were very real and he has received a prison sentence already, but there's a million appeals before that happens. The old elites are desperate for him to go to the slammer before the next presidential election, because fucked as his party is, he's still the strongest contender. This is because the popular faces of the other parties are all falling like dominos. The now-president's centrist party has no popular persons, and the socdem party (which is effectively center-right and the new-preferred redoubt of the old elite) that's allied with him has its 3 power players compromised by the investigation, one of whom being the sacrificial lamb I mentioned above.

Which leads us to the current situation. The pseudo-leftist party sort of monopolized the label of the left in the public sphere, and if you add the smear job against its former presidents, the entire damn left had its shit pushed in by association, despite the fact that a good chunk of it openly opposed them. The old elite's propaganda worked perfectly. Between that and fucking Trump, being an openly bigoted reactionary is becoming acceptable, even fashionable in social networks, including with entirely too many celebrities. And since our bourgeoisie eats the shit from Uncle Sam's butthole, I'm already seeing the already-moronic talking points of the American right being made even more moronic by being applied to our society. Fuck, they're whining abou muslims in a country where they don't make up 0.02% of the population. If there's one thing to compliment the porky media on, it's that they unceremoniusly shit on the "right-to-far-right". It's unlikely but possible that the old elite will regret creating this beast, as mouth-foaming reactionaries are talking about presidential candidacies. One of them, easily the most popular among them, is so absurdly retrograde, ignorant and boorish that he makes Trump look like Rosa.

tl;dr: the left is out of the board and I have no idea how or when it will be back in; the old elite, who always played safely around the center, is now so firmly back in power that it can afford to have sectional civil war without fear; and the right is an outlier but might yet fuck everything up for everybody forever.

still tl;dr: death is certain

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