OpEd: Democracy In The Age Of Populism And Mass Gullibility By Richard Odusanya | Sahara Reporters
Democracy has been defined as the government of the people, for the people, by the people". This classic definition assumes that people would vote to express their opinions, winners would be elected and subsequently accepted by the people. The definition was stated when POPULISM, commercial politics or POLITIPRENEURSHIP, and gullible social media influencers were not active participants in the political scene.
In Brazil it was expected that if Bolsonaro were to lose at the polls, there would be an imminent risk that Brazil will experience something similar to the January 6th attack on the US Capitol; or worse. As president, Bolsonaro has used the highest office in the country to aggressively stoke disinformation, in the same manner as US ex-President Trump did with his fanatical supporters.
Apart from the moral burden of ex-president Obasanjo’s open letter; the global community and men of good conscience cannot fold their arms and allow the ongoing situation in Brazil to repeat itself in a country as fragile and delicate as Nigeria - to go the way of January 6 in America and ongoing in Brazil will be a monumental disaster. Our beloved country Nigeria does not have such strong institutions like those in the western world.
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