And lots of people that are in the middle class now and vote for Bolsonaro came from families that lived in poverty when Lula came to power the first time. The only article that I could find in English describing the paradox is https://www.populismstudies.org/dr-nogueira-trumps-influence-is-shaping-brazils-election-making-it-a-very-important-and-dangerous-one-2/ :

Dr. Nogueira argues that Lulism remains anchored in the Northeast and among lower-income voters, but has become increasingly defensive. She suggests that “Lulism has perhaps become a victim of its own success,” as social mobility has altered popular aspirations and Lula’s political appeal has become more closely associated with defending past achievements than promising transformative change.

In Portuguese there are many more articles, but general gist is that people that climbed the social ladder from poverty are now more focused on protecting and furthering their new status than in helping the people that are still stuck in poverty. And it’s not even a Brazilian phenomena, there have been similar voter behaviours in Portugal, Turkey and India for example.

the working class of the richer parts are highly elitist and love acting like petit bourgoisie, there was extreme xenophobia against internal migrants of the poorer parts (northeast) into the richer parts (southeast, specially São Paulo), and more recently against also fellow LATAM migrants and the few African migrants from former Portuguse colonies. They have risen up from porverty into “middle class” during PT’s (Lula’s party) previous rule, and now are highly reactionary and elitist, the intelectual elite in brazil has generally being right wing for centruys, and being so prominent in the southeast region they have spread their ideas most strongly there and in also have often become part of the economical elite (the bourgoisie) themselves

Do… do you actually know this person or are you schizoing out?

PT is almost always in a coalition with PSOL, and often more fringe parties like PCdB, UP, are willing to support them with the little representation they have, there is also the “center left” (highly questionable to be willing to call the that honestly) parties that sometimes are willing to, the biggest being PSDB, sometimes PT has to give in some controversial concessions to get support, like for example with a concession to get some of their representitives to support the “Lei Felca” which is a highyl controversion law that passed that can only described as a parallel to the UK’s Online Safety Act, although the former has not been enforved so far at all (AFAIK) even though it has been in effect for months, but that hasn’t stopped platforms from already trying to comply with its impossible and insane text

This is good info. Thank you for sharing.

You know that the political process needs a lot of patience and time if you actually want to achieve something?

Maybe that’s the case in Brazil, but here in the US, that is patently false.

As i answered you above, Lula’s party has to seek partners to get 2/3 majorities to enact laws. He can’t just do a Trump and do whatever they want - and that is good and healthy! (Lula himself also has been involved in Unions for decades - i am very sure that he actually cares).

They already made sure that minimum wage has climbed around 30% over the last years and that the Health and Education System actually can get more money (there really was a law prohibiting increased spending in the health sector for 2 decades - absolutely bonkers). Still, there’s a lot to do, but for a party that has to actually convince other parties to vote with them they are doing a pretty good job.