51 million Bolsonaro supporters are a reality.

I've seen numerous opinions since yesterday about what happened yesterday. Here's my take on our current situation.

É wishful thinking (Delusional thinking, wishful thinking) to believe that there aren't 51 million supporters of Nazism and Fascism in Brazil. There are. This is Jair Bolsonaro's second election, one of the main – possibly the main – global representatives of the ideology brought to its peak by Hitler in the 20th century. There are no excuses. Everyone already knew and knows the "values" of the current president. Even here in Germany, after four years of struggle on my part to show who Bolsonaro really is, it's no longer news. Those who voted – this time – voted consciously.

We need to accept reality: Brazil today is a country with 51 million people who love Nazism or – at the very least – accept it and prefer it to Lula and the Workers' Party. There are rich people who hate poor people, poor people who hate themselves for being poor, white people who hate black people, black people who hate themselves for being black, men who hate women, women who hate themselves for being women. There are neo-Pentecostal evangelicals who hate non-evangelical neo-Pentecostals. There are men, women, rich and poor who hate the LGBT community, indigenous people, and anyone who wants to be something different from what they accept. There are people who are disgusted by Human Rights and therefore, for four years, have embraced with all their "love" the father of the disruption of Human Rights. The numbers don't lie. There are 50 million voting for this so-called human being for the second time.

What we need to do now is:

1. Winning the election on October 30th.
2. Be prepared for the war (of a scale yet to be determined) that will be initiated by the current president's refusal to accept the results.
3. To ensure that Lula is able to assume the presidency on January 1, 2023.
4. The process of de-Bolsonarization should begin nationwide, and we should hope that the next generation (in about 25 years) will be anti-Bolsonarist. That's exactly what happened in Germany, which only began to truly free itself from Nazism in 1968 (23 years after Hitler's death, and when the generation of Nazi criminals was beginning to age and their children, already denazified, were starting to replace them in society).

One more point should be made regarding the polls: why were the polls almost perfectly accurate about Lula and grossly wrong about Bolsonaro? Answer: Because nobody is ashamed to admit they vote for Lula. And among fascists, there's everything: there's the proud one and the ashamed one, who lies in the polls, but when alone with the ballot box and when nobody is watching, gladly opts for hatred. It's part of Nazism and Fascism. Here in Germany it's the same. There are many "closet Nazis" who say nothing, who evade the issue. And when the time comes, the AfD receives more votes than visible people. Once again, Bolsonarism follows the Nazism and Fascism playbook.

Finally, the game goes on. We've been in the realm of harm reduction for some time now. It's naive to think about spring. Spring was 2003. And there were beautiful gardens. But the flowers were violently trampled and replaced by weeds. Now it's time to start over, and the work is infinitely more arduous than it was in 2003. So let's understand, without naiveté, the scenario we find ourselves in, and let's start fighting again.