Brazil's Dilma Rousseff's Popularity Ratings Down To 20-Year Low

[MADem]

62. I rather doubt that the people who voted for her, and now are saying she needs to go, are fascists.

What an absurd construct. Simplistic and wrong.

UNION WORKERS are protesting against her: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/03/14/in-brazil-pres-dilma-prepares-for-weekend-long-hate-fest/

This is going to be a soul searching weekend for Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. On Saturday, more than 30,000 union workers took to Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo for four hours calling for political reform. These are the guys that form the base of the ruling Workers’ Party. In other words: these are Dilma’s friends. Thousands more are expected on Sunday. Those guys will be calling for Dilma’s head.

According to a Feb. 9 poll by Datafolha, 44% of respondents think Dilma’s government is doing a poor job while 23% think she is doing a good job. The numbers have completely reversed from a December Datafolha poll. Oddly enough, it’s not the deteriorating economy that’s got Brazilians ticked off. It’s politics. It’s corruption. In other words, it’s politics-as-usual. And now, Brazilians are opening up their apartment windows, hanging their heads out into a thunderstorm, and yelling “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

...Brazil’s Workers’ Party is caught in the middle. The party that kicked was credited with paying off the country’s International Monetary Fund debt and increasing the middle class, is now the party that killed Petrobras . They are seen as allowing the largest corporate scandal in Brazilian history to go on unchecked. Executives at oil major Petrobras were charged with organizing oil kickback and money laundering schemes that have been going for 10 years or more. The opposition has used Petrobras’ downfall as a way to paint the Workers’ Party and its allies as corrupt banana republic politicians. On a recent list of 54 members of congress involved in the scandal, only one was from the opposition Social Democratic Party and the rest were from Workers’ Party allies. The list gave activists renewed fervor. The Dilma-friendly labor union took to the streets first this weekend, starting on Friday, as if to preempt the opposition.

On Saturday, in the old Workers’ Party (known as PT locally) stronghold of Porto Alegre, party president Rui Falcao said PT leadership needs to take a hard look at themselves once this weekend is over.

Her poll ratings are plummeting because she's falling down on the job, not because her former supporters have suddenly become corporate pigs. Unless "union workers" are now members of the One Percent, or something.

She couldn't get elected dogcatcher with the numbers she's putting up these days.

FWIW, I don't think she should be impeached--though a lot of people do. I think she needs to fix the mess, though--and quickly.