Political Analysis of Lula and Bolsonaro

I want to share with you a reflection on what happened yesterday.

Yesterday, the difference between Lula and Flávio

Bolsonaro was not about

competence, and it was not about résumés.

First, Flávio Bolsonaro, we need to remind all of

Brazilian

society that he is the person linked to the largest

corruption scheme ever seen in Brazil, the largest

money laundering scheme, the largest bank fraud scheme.

Flávio Bolsonaro is involved with Banco Master.

Flávio Bolsonaro has a kickback scheme.

Flávio Bolsonaro is the person who sends, uh, 200,000 reais in a budget amendment

to the person who ordered Marielle Franco killed.

Flávio Bolsonaro is the person who, uh, defends, anyway, people who

kill children. So, Flávio Bolsonaro, his running mate,

you know, is— is accused of rape. So this is the résumé of

person. And so I want to offer a reflection that

I've been trying to bring up

on social media all the time.

Go to a bus stop, because sometimes what's lacking,

even for the left itself

here, is a feel for reality.

Go to a bus stop at six in the evening,

which is more or less rush hour,

and see if there's anyone without their hand on their phone.

And I'm not saying that rallies in the streets, taking to the streets, aren't important.

I'm telling you that if you don't have a presence on social media, the world may

be great, the economy may be great, purchasing power may be great, but

if there's someone here on social media saying the world is shit,

people

will believe it. There are many times when President Luiz

Inácio Lula da Silva doesn't

He did nothing during his term. And there are countless things he did, like Pix

pension payments, like the betting ban now, among other

things. I'm talking about the most recent things,

but he did a lot.

But what happens is that social media here thinks the world is a mess?

Because those who dominate social media here, those who are dominating the narrative,

are saying the world is a mess.

So even if the economy is doing well, even if everything is good, people

can't understand this reality, that the world is actually doing well, because

those who dominate the narrative here are saying it's bad.

I would really like to make an appeal to the entire left.

It's time for us to truly set aside ignorance,

put on the sandals of humility and understand that with the network

We do need to learn social media, yes.

It's not that, uh, it isn't important to hold rallies in the streets,

or to go out into the streets. That's not it.

It's understanding that there is no longer a separation between social media and the streets.

Those in the streets are online, and often, those who are online

aren't

in the streets. So organizing a movement in the streets,

often,

is pointless, it's pointless. Does it show political strength? Yes.

Do we need movements in the streets?

We do too, but we also need a movement

online.

This is the time to sit down with people who know how to work social media, come onto

social media and talk to the people who are here.

Often, and this really upsets me,

the camp didn't like what Janones

said, what I've been saying. But that's it, folks. The discussion is here.

Life is being shaped by the screen of the phone, not by the street.

The way to get Flávio's voter to vote for Lula is to try to

show Flávio's voter why Flávio is bad and that they should not

vote for

Flávio. We don't need to make anything up about

Flávio.

Unlike them, we don't need to create a whole realm of

fake news.

We have the facts. We just need to control the narratives.

I think it has proven itself that social media does get people elected.

It's not that the left is weak, that young people are outside of, of

politics. I've said this many times.

Discouraging young people makes them go to the other side.

The progressive camp loses a lot when it tries to discredit young people.

That's why I'm speaking here to you.

More than 524,000 votes I got yesterday.

Uh—it's not that the left is weak, the left needs new stereotypes,

the

left needs new representation.

People want new representation, people want to see themselves in those places of

power.

It’s not that people want to see a fight, people want to see combat, people want to be

defended, people want to see themselves in those places,

people want to dream, because people

deserve to dream. And this is what it means to make people dream.

Putting— re-electing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so that

I can have a much easier

term, so that I can carry the banner of

youth, the banner of the Black population,

so that we can also, once and for all, understand that young people are

indeed on our side. It’s just that sometimes investment is lacking.

And we need to invest.

Invest in young people, which is a field that is still, you know,

contested.

It’s not that the right has already won. The field is contested.

We need to go after that now.

And it’s not just about going after it in the streets, it’s about understanding that social media is not

something to be looked down on. In fact, social media is the solution.

And I’m making available my social media accounts and everything I

learned here, because even though this field here

has often

been looked down on by many people, I understand that this is a

process of building. Folks, the grassroots aren’t just in the streets anymore.

The grassroots are on Instagram and TikTok, yes.

People are on Instagram and TikTok.

So even though we have enacted countless public policies, it’s no use if we

don’t bring them here to social media.

Count on me for whatever you need.

I thank all my voters, and that's it.

We'll win in the runoff. A comeback is even sweeter.