Brazil, Where Nuts Plan to Go

I’m glad I didn’t move to Brazil with a narcissistic sociopath.

The sun setting on an abusive relationship… I mean on the Columbia River.

Watching Democracy Now! I see that Bolsonaro, “the Trump of the Tropics,” and Brazil are back in the news. An election might replace this dictator with an elected president.

Brazil on Fire:

Brazil on Fire

Whenever Brazil is in the news, or I simply come across the word “Brazil,” I look back on how, in 2015 and 2016, I had tentative plans to move to Brazil with a narcissistic sociopath if Donald Trump won the 2016 election. She’d picked a small, quirky city similar to Portland, Oregon. I went along with it.

Brazil was the country she chose. I suppose I’d sound boring and conventional if I admitted I would’ve chosen Victoria, Canada. Other choices might be Wales or Scotland, India (in the north, perhaps Dharamshala), or New Zealand. (If I’d predicted the covid pandemic, I wouldn’t have chosen India.)

My people-pleasing was so extreme I never truly told her (let’s call her Arachne, since I was metaphorically caught in her web) no. Whenever I said anything like “No,” she had a drama…