Richard Wolff reflects on greater meaning of elections in Brazil, Germany, and U.S. |Wolff|||||||||||| Richard Wolff denkt über die größere Bedeutung von Wahlen in Brasilien, Deutschland und den USA nach. Richard Wolff reflexiona sobre el mayor significado de las elecciones en Brasil, Alemania y EE.UU. リチャード・ウルフがブラジル、ドイツ、アメリカにおける選挙の意味について考察。 Richardas Wolffas svarsto apie didesnę rinkimų Brazilijoje, Vokietijoje ir JAV reikšmę. Richard Wolff zastanawia się nad większym znaczeniem wyborów w Brazylii, Niemczech i USA. Richard Wolff reflecte sobre o significado das eleições no Brasil, na Alemanha e nos EUA Ричард Вулф размышляет о значении выборов в Бразилии, Германии и США. Річард Вольфф розмірковує про велике значення виборів у Бразилії, Німеччині та США. 理查德·沃尔夫反思巴西、德国和美国选举的更大意义 理查德·沃爾夫反思巴西、德國和美國選舉的更大意義

I think these elections have something in common. The rejection of the mass of |||||||||отказ|||| |||elections|||||||||| ||||||||la|rechazo||||

people in Brazil, in Germany and here in the United States as well, with |||||||||||como||

conventional politics, with the old establishment, with that cozy arrangement traditional|||||established order||||cozy agreement |||||establishment político|com||conivente|acordo confortável |||||establishment político|||cómoda|acuerdo cómodo

between slightly left-of-center politics and slightly right-of-center politics, |ligeramente||||||||||

changing places as time required but all of them presiding over a capitalism that ||||needed|||||in charge of|||market economy| |||||mas||||presidindo sobre|||capitalismo que| cambiando||||requerido|||||||||

they thought would never end. Well, the massive people don't want that |pensaron|||||||||| eles|||||||||||

anymore. The capitalism they've had to live with since 2008 and the terrible ||capitalismo|||||||||

crash then has been awful. First was the crash itself and the massive suffering ||||||||||||huge|pain and distress ||||terrível||||||||| accidente aéreo||||terrible||||accidente|||||

and unemployment. Then came the quick bailouts of the banks and big |joblessness|||||financial assistance||||| ||||||ajudas financeiras|||||grande |desempleo|||||rescates financieros|||||

corporations who were mostly responsible for the crash in the first place. And as companies|||||||||||||

if that wasn't ugly enough it was followed by the last 10 years of

austerity politics in which the cost of bailing out those big corporations was economic restraint|||||||bailing out||||| austeridad|||||||rescate financiero|||||

borne by mass withdrawal of government services, mass dying out of wage |||removal||||||||salary soportado por|||retirada||gobierno||masiva||||salario

increases: austerity. And of course people are angry. They're angry at what

happened but they're angry at the political parties that presided over all of that. |||||||||oversaw|||| ||||||||||sobre|||

That's also what prompted the British working-class to vote for Brexit as if |||provocó que||británicos||||||||

cutting yourself off from Europe would solve your problems. And it also explains ||||Europa||||||||

the votes here in the United States for Mr. Trump, and all that he represents, and

the GOP, in its rush into the right wing. Well I'm not surprised that 'right wing' ||||prisa||||ala derecha||||||derecha|ala derecha

is the direction most of the upset of the mass of people is taking as they ||||||malestar|||||||||

contest with and deal with a dying capitalism. Where else would we have ||||||||||habríamos||

expected them to go? The last 50 years have been an endless drumbeat of ||||||||||infinito|ritmo constante|

anti-leftism, anti-socialism, anti-communism. The right has been able to take over. |izquierda política||||||||||||

Liberals went more to the right with each passing year. So yes, people look to los liberales||||||||pasando||||||

the right as maybe the kind of change that will help them.

They will discover soon enough, and indeed some already are, that the right ||||||de hecho||||||

wing has no solutions for this problem of a dying capitalism since mostly they ala|||||||||||||

pretend that that problem isn't there. So what will happen? Well the right will

fail. It's already failing where it has taken over. Brexit is a disaster. Mr. fracasa|||||||||Brexit||||

Trump is going in that direction. The danger for all of us is that a right

wing that cannot solve the problems it promised to, will need to blame somebody

for its failure. It won't blame itself. It won't blame its own lack of a solution ||fracaso||||sí mismo|||||||||

to the problems of a capitalism that is failing and that they cannot recognize ||||||||en crisis|||||

as such. So they will blame the left