Opinion: from rejection to support – my very personal Bolsonaro story

(Opinion) As a gay man, I used to reject Jair Bolsonaro from the bottom of my heart.

Back in 2018, I couldn’t believe that there were people who would vote for him.

I even argued with my family until the sparks flew because they thought he was the right man at the right time.

I had no understanding for such a decision, even if the justification was that the people wanted and needed to remove the Workers’ Party from power once and for all to prevent Brazil from becoming another failed state.

But I admit, back then, I would have preferred to be in a ‘communist’ country based on pure ideology than to deal with Jair Bolsonaro as president.

But the truth was that I never really listened to what he had to say or paid attention to his decisions and actions.

On the contrary, I just wanted to keep believing what I believed and not deal with information that would challenge that.

I devoured every story in mainstream media that ripped him to shreds and confirmed my standing.

I was convinced I already knew everything essential to know about him, and so were my friends.

I missed no opportunity to bash the man simply because already the tone of his voice was enough to annoy me.

But something changed in me when a friend, in a philosophical minute, said that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

This simple and short sentence suddenly broke the spell and made me think.

And so, almost against my will, I began to observe Bolsonaro’s actions and decisions more closely and pay more attention to them.

And I decided to pray for him. After all, the Bible says that we should also pray for the ‘misguided’.

I’m not sure if Bolsonaro had changed, but I certainly had.

I began to see him from a different perspective and better understand his decisions and the message behind his politically incorrect sentences, too often phrased in crude terms.

He may have said some homophobic stuff, like so many others, but he never touched or took away the rights of our community.

The police do not persecute us; we are not put in jails.

I don’t notice any deterioration of our living conditions under Bolsonaro.

Nada.

We are left to live our lives in peace.

We can still get married, dance in gay clubs, and even parade yearly to celebrate pride and live everyday life as we did before.

Then, when the pandemic came, and I had to watch in disbelief the increasingly one-sided reporting in almost all media, I finally understood something.

Media are interest groups, not neutral mediators, as I once believed.

Just as it went against the interests of the mainstream to write balanced and unbiased about Covid-19 and the vaccinations, or anything else that does not serve them or their backers, it went against the interests to report balanced and fair about Bolsonaro too.

I believe today that most of my fellow Brazilians and I do not know Jair Bolsonaro as the man he is.

We only know the picture that biased media have drawn domino by domino over many years.

And this picture is a monster.

I do not consider myself a Bolsonarist, I do not think he is flawless, and I certainly am not his biggest fan.

But now that I can see him and his actions without the mainstream media hypnosis, I consider him an ally.

He is the only president (or one of the few) who defied and questioned international organizations and authorities’ official narrative and has not (yet) ‘suddenly died’.

I consider him an ally against the globalists, the New World Order (NWO), whose existence is evident to me, although many refuse to believe it.

Bolsonaro did not sign the UN 2030 Agenda agreement; he did not sign the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty; he did not encourage us to get the ‘not so safe and effective’ vaccines and disapproved of the vaccination of toddlers and children.

He was against vaccine mandates and discrimination against the unvaccinated and stood and still stands for freedom of choice.

I am grateful for that. For this, you need nerve.

He is being prosecuted for this, but the more information that comes to light, the more you can see that he had good reason to act as he did.

For me, Bolsonaro is the guarantor that our Brazil will go its own way.

Under Bolsonaro, Brazil will be one of the very few countries that remains true to themselves and is not bought by foreign interests.

Not a vassal of the U.S. and not of the Chinese or, God forbid, keep copying the Europeans.

But a country that is to become its center of power, its own pole in a multipolar world, simply because of its sheer size and overwhelming natural wealth.

In the geopolitical turmoil in which the world has found itself this year, such a country needs a president who can also eat dirt if necessary, purely out of pure conviction and inner strength.

A president who is tough, who does not need to be loved by other heads of state to feel good about himself, who keeps the great powers at bay, a president who does not back down and who does not care what Paris, Berlin, Ottawa, Beijing or London think.

I believe the global takeover is coming from the left, but I do not think all right-wing politicians share Bolsonaro’s position.

In my observations, I believe right-wing politicians like the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle Pou, Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso, the former Colombian president Ivan Duque, and the Israeli government operate in conjunction with the NWO.

I am convinced Bolsonaro is not part of that “global elite club” and that he has no interest in becoming one of them.

His position has more to do with his values than his political orientation.

And that is a good thing.