Fear of the right drove anarchist anti-electoral activists to vote nonetheless

Evidence

Many members of the Movimento Passe Livre were anarchists, or otherwise rejected participation in elections as a matter of principle. As a group, the MPL never takes any position on political campaigns of any kind. But for many of them, the upcoming election was terrifying. It appeared that, for the first time since 1998, the right could actually win. The possibility that Aécio could take power seemed like the end of the world to many people on the left, and a totally unacceptable outcome to the Free Fare activists. So they voted for her. Mayara didn’t feel the slightest twinge of doubt. She cast her ballot for Dilma Rousseff. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 545

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Many Bolsonaro voters were uncommitted pragmatists, not committed ideologues. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 722; Fear of breaking with La Guardia made reformers vote against their fiscal judgment — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2735; Disengagement from elections benefits the right, not the left — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1780 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• French radicals opposed women’s suffrage out of fear women would vote conservatively #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 278
• Disengagement from elections benefits the right, not the left #corroborates (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1780