Disclaimer: This post was inspired by a conversation I had here, in which the Socialist asked me why there are so many libertarians here, like 4 ou 10 libertarians online are brazilian, so I made this. If you guys want to give your opinions about these historical events, fell free, every opinion is welcome. TL:DR at the end
Basically, the Ancap community is growing because every single one of us hate politicians, you can ask anyone here, no one here likes to vote, we hate the parties we have and politicians who where supposed to represent us, which also don't happen.
That is a common trend no matter your political side, we hate government and politicians. And all this is justified through out the history, because we had every kind of government begging with fascism around the WW2 under the rule of Getúlio Vargas who pushed for nationalism and centralization of power, together with borrowing the Labour Charter from Mussolini, we didn't joined the axis because of the USA interference, interference which helped stablish the Military Dictatorship, which was a coup against a failed coup that tried a socialist dictatorship, crazy isn't it.
The Military Dictatorship was mostly based on corporativist/interventionist keynesian economics with with conservative morals, the military Dictatorship was loosing its power at the peak of the Cold War, and since this was seen as a right capitalist dictatorship, we had real communist movement all over the place.
And the combined effort of the violence from these groups, together with the normal citzen wanting a democratic state, they finally gave up on power giving birth to the constitution we have today. The problem is that it was written not by law and justice experts, people who understands about philosophy and ethics or the 12 founding fathers like the USA.
Ours was written by FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE people which were the politicians of that time, with a good amout elected democratically by military dictatorship, and with communists and socialists included also. So our constitution is a mess of rights and a clump of power in a few structures like the Supreme Federal Court.
After we finally got our dreamed democracy, happened that one president died, one stole our savings from inside the banks and was impeached, we had a hiper inflation, changed currency four times in 6 years and after that we had 14 years of government under the labors party control, which ended in 2016 (Second impeachment) and had one of the biggest scandals of corruption in history inside that 14 years period.
Operation Car Wash uncovering the biggest scandal ever
All of this madness just makes us look at government and ask why? Why must we be ruled by people who win a "popularity contest" (we had a professional clown and a porn actor winning at important federal elections). Why must we obey the rule made by people who are not even smarter than the average brazilian... Why should we keep going in this clown fiesta if it have already shown to fail.
We've had everything, except for a true economically liberal government like Pinochet and Margaret Thatcher, in 2018 election we got Bolsonaro in charge, it was an an atempt to change the status quo by those who still believed in the government, he failed miserably and his voter are basically split right into liberals and fans of the military Dictatorship.
A few years earlier, this one myth, the legendary Daniel Fraga appeared. He launched the libertarian movement to new highs by preaching on youtube about bitcoin back in 2015/16 and bashing on the government. He vanished after the peak of 2017 bitcoin price to evade the political wrath for speaking up. He had politicians from both sides anger, sueing him and trying to get him in jail so he stops preaching about Libertarianism, well they failed. He said fuck you government in front of everybody and vanished unharmed.
He was the seed for the next generation that blew up in 2018 right before the election, now with another youtuber, which soon changed into a few more. And it has been growing since, now with even more content creator than ever, a few tv celebrities ancap, a fucking news journal on youtube called Libertarian View, we basically control twitter alongside the minions of Bolsonaro and crazy socialists that everyone hates.
TL:DR
So... We had fascism, Keynesian Corporativism, a crazy ass constitution with influences from previous politicians from the dictatorship and from the ideals of URSS (which was at it's "peak" at the time). The so wonderful democracy was a disaster filled with impeachment, corruption, one president dyeing, hyperinflation, 14 years of the same party.
This makes us doubt and later hate government and politicians, but the idea of libertarianism only blew up in 2017 and later 2018 at the elections, which was an attempt by those who still believed in the government to change things up, and with Bolsonaro change has come. But not as a radical change of the status quo as we expected...
He is a little bit more to the right, like how Biden is just a little bit more to the left, but still all the same shit. And this coupled with the hero Daniel Fraga, was enough to kick-start and later keep fueling the growth of libertarianism and ancaps in Brazil.
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