Thread by @GillyRoots

1) Mexican President #LopezObrador is draining the swamp, and Atlanticist media isn’t happy about it. In fact, the New York Times and the Washington Post hate him for it. ✊
I'm not allowed to post the link as #Twitter has censored it, so I will copy it out here.....

Right now, to carry Mexico’s Fourth Transformation forward, AMLO requires an additional mandate beyond the movement that put him in power, and this means a referendum that condemns the corruption of Mexico’s past five presidents –

3/ Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto. Such a move would solidify a type of revolution underway in the country – a condemnation of the socio-economic course of the past thirty years.

4/ The general view of AMLO and Mexico’s mainstream left incl the nationalist left, is the country took a catastrophic turn towards neoliberalism in 1982. This represented an ideological split in the PRI, leading towards the PAN.

5/ This is how Mexico arrived at two neoliberal parties, similar to Democrats (like the PRI) and Republican (like the PAN) in the U.S.

6/ AMLO’s mission originally with the PRD (1989) & then the labor supported, trans-class MORENA (Movimiento Regeneración Nacional) was to return to an older type of PRM/PRI politics before neoliberalism (akin perhaps to FDR in the U.S.).

7/ This was envisioned to be in line with social-nationalist greats of the revolutionary period like Lazaro Cardenas.

The politics of MORENA, also meaning a mestizo or indigenous woman, have taken up the banner of ‘national regeneration’ – palingenesis – as the fundamental theme behind the Fourth Transformation. To make Mexico great again also means to drain the swamp.

9/ Draining the Swamp
To arrive at indictments against these past 5 corrupt Mexican presidents represents an indictment against the control by foreign bankers, against globalization & the globalists behind it, against austerity & capital flight, against the war on the infirmed...

10/ ....the elderly, and the weak, against the daily assault on women and children, against the privatization of sovereign resources, against poverty and the brain/brawn drain which is mass migration.

11/ As AMLO sees it, because Mexico’s economy is growing, a shortage of labor will ultimately hinder this growth. The policy of corrupt Mexican presidents in the past has been to facilitate a general northward movement of labor.

12/ ...Skilled and unskilled Mexican labor went northward, but so did Central American labor. Mexicans seeking higher wages went to the U.S., and Central Americans seeking the same went to Mexico.....

13/ ....Business owners, in the short-term, benefited from relatively cheapened labor supplies as American firms hired Mexicans and Mexican firms hired Central Americans.....

14/ This arrangement was ultimately an immigration pyramid scheme, a social-pressure release-valve mechanism to manage boiling poverty. Unrest in Mexico also a result of the collusion between corrupt Mexican political leaders & direct exploitation by American firms in Mexico.

15/ Moreover, as a great population replacement/swap campaign it divides both populations in ways that makes it more difficult to build meaningful consensus around larger issues. Immigration isn’t just a wedge issue....

16/ ...it’s a policy that creates many more wedge issues which in turn divide a population against itself, drowning out important conversations that need to happen on a whole range of other political topics – problems – which therefore go unaddressed.

17/ Problems then fester & take on more problems as a domino/catalyst mechanism
Fundamentally, at the level of social ideology AMLO’s policies explode the myth that mass migration outside of natural disasters & calamities, is an inherent, positive feature of the human experience

18/ It exposes the great lie that left to their own devices, people will inherently desire to uproot themselves and become a deracinated collection of individuals deprived of peoplehood and left only as atoms subject to consumerism.

19/ ...In reality, these are all negative aspects of globalization itself. Globalization is not a ‘natural process’ in the pre-sociological sense....

20/ Globalization is not a ‘natural process’ in the pre-sociological sense of the term, but rather a particular social construction with intended goals that has built around itself a base social ideology compatible with that same globalization process.

21/ It appropriates for itself the language of the left, while having no relationship to, say, organized labor or the French Revolution. So this is a matter of demagogic expedience, & not its fundamental outcome which to the contrary is oligarchical or plutocratic in its result.

For the rest of this 'must read' piece go to 'Strategic Culture Foundation' - 'Mexico Rising: Atlanticist Media-Hate Overdrive as AMLO Drains the Swamp' by Joaquin FLORES.
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