And the less the population is able to actually understand what's actually going on,

the easier it will be for the party to capture them and have them as allies.

They are also for liberalizing abortion, and also the so-called gender ideology.

Even children, not very few, but children aged seven, eight, nine.

Children think not to know whether they're girls or boys, and vice versa.

Or boys don't know whether they're boys anymore.

So this is really terrible.

Our guest, Jaira Bolsonaro, is the current president of Brazil.

He's up for re-election at the end of this month.

The presidency of Brazil has been turbulent for nearly all of its modern history. For 20 years, the 60s through the 80s, Brazil was run by military dictatorship following the coup against a socialist president. More recently, President Dilma Rousseff was impeached after the country was driven into economic crisis in 2014. Brazil's government has long been filled with corruption, too. The current election, its former president Luis Anasio Lula de Silva,

Lula, who actually served time in jail for corruption against Bolsonaro,

who has targeted corruption in allegedly controversial ways.

Bolsonaro has also taken militantly conservative stances on issues ranging from killing government

programs to opening up gun availability for law-abiding citizens,

from harsher treatment of criminals to opening up more economic development in areas prized

by environmentalists. Bolsonaro has been slandered as a fascist, a dictator, or an authoritarian by

many in the media, but his agenda of more assertive force to cut crime and promote traditional family

values has made him hugely popular with Brazilians. He won in 2018 with 55% of the vote.

This time around, he bucked the odds to survive a first round face-off with Lula, dramatically

outperforming the early polls. Many countries that make up South America face political

corruption and destructive progressive policies. We see that in Venezuela, Argentina, Chile.

In today's episode, we discuss if Brazil's momentum away from big government

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