For more than a decade, global politics have been rocked by the rise of right-wing nationalist governments. Similar to Donald Trump’s rise in the United States, countries like India, Hungary, Brazil, and Italy have seen the emergence of far-right governments that have channeled popular anger into support for nativist and anti-immigrant platforms.
It turns out we’re largely to blame for it.
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Today on Lever Time, Arjun Singh sits down with Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp to discuss his new book The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept The World, in which Beauchamp traces the roots of modern right-wing regimes to an antidemocratic tradition that began in the United States.
To read an unedited transcript of this episode, click here.
Surely I am not the first to notice that any time a country with natural resources starts moving towards a democracy, the USA comes along and foists a brutal, US business friendly dictator on them.
The CIA exists for no other reason than to oppose democracy and to crush rising living standards abroad.
THat is precisely how they monetize the whole game! Just stoke the opposition. It could be the opposition is on "the left" or on "the right". Just keep flipping the burger! This is the sum total of the high falutin ivy-league/think tank kissinger-aphrodisiac-worshipping foreign policy deep state apparatus. Keep flipping the burger, unless the patty is completely burnt. Think of it: by enticing a struggle from the opposition via National Endowment for Democracy, varous Foundations (carnegie, rockefeller, ford whatnot) you get to "keep a hand in" with the very new fresh government as the burger patty flips. Then you use that freshly moneyed minted relationship to extract treasure and use them to help further flip still OTHER burget patties. Till the burger patty is burnt. Real ivy league stuff......Samantha Powers PhD level stuff.....