Listen to how calm one of the “Chicago Boys” is while he describes implementing austerity that killed people and a violent regime that murdered the elected leader and many citizens. Disappeared many more.
Does this situation not sound eerily similar to what happened during the Capitol riot & act of insurrection but failed on January 6, 2021? A mere 4 weeks ago tomorrow?
That’s because it’s the same group behind the Capitol riot: US far right and wealthy libertarian plutocrats.
Chile was the first in a series of US sponsored coups to permanently install neoliberal free market ideology and Austrian economics (Mises, Hayek, Friedman) in vulnerable nations to enhance the profits of the wealthy and prevent any changes to redistribute wealth to the poor.
But it was bloody and damaged physical and human capital.
After a few attempts at violent coups, guided democracy became a more efficient, less bloody method of installing paleolibertarian ideals, policies and constitutions.
The IDU (International Democratic Union) was created to do this work at a distance from any one government. British PM Margaret Thatcher and Reagan/GWHB created the IDU.
Undermine from within instead of force your way into power.
Russia, Georgia (the nation), Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Turkey, Belgium, the UN, the EU. All have been infiltrated & moved further right ideologically.
Surely no one believes it’s just a coincidence that they’re all IDU member nations where political parties sponsored by IDU are taking over legislatures and governance.
How about South America? Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Columbia, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, Brazil, Peru.
And Asia? Khazikstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, India, Hong Kong.
Some of these nations required violence. Many did not. The far right just walked in and took over. Using demagogic populism, dark money funding and many nations’ plutocrats deep pockets.
Check the lame attempt to distance this behaviour from Conservatives & pin it on People’s Party. A fringe party. When CPC clearly contributed toxic rhetoric to the two assassination attempts on PMJT this past July 2020.
While this article calls this iteration of demagogic populism fringe, it’s definitely crossed into mainstream.
It’s destroying the very foundations of democracy. Which is precisely what it is designed to do. Politicians don’t need to stay in power to inflict long term damage.
Or is this self-righteous indignation a distraction from the fact CPC, Ontario PC and Alberta UCP are good buddies and close associates with the Republican GOP treasonous goons who conspired to kill democracy, and helped organize a violent insurrection?
Months ago, CPC were complaining QP was required to hold the government accountable. What we’re witnessing now are opposition MP posers attempting to create sound bytes for propaganda distribution. KXL is dead.
Ain’t no amount of flogging gonna breathe life into it again.
Why? Because it’s a documentation of the utter bullshit conspiracy theories being propagated in Alberta and confirmation it’s being coordinated in multiple provinces and nationally.
The people listening to this are already Q’Anon converts or Dominionist Christians or both simultaneously.
Don’t be fooled into false assurances that this is a serious challenge to UCP dominance.
Much like Kamikaze candidates who do the dirty work for the real candidate, smears, dirty politics, spreading disinformation; we now have provincial and national Kamikaze political parties doing the dirty work for provincial and national conservatives.
There are a lot of people confused about what Kenney is doing regarding KXL.
It’s a strategy. I keep trying to inform people he is not speaking to the public at large. He is only directing his rhetoric at his support base. Which happens to be the same make up as Trump’s in US.
This is fuel and fodder for the conspiracy theories circulating that Biden stole the 2020 elections.
His appearance on Fox pushing propaganda and disinformation is proof of where his political allegiances lie. Right alongside Trump and seditious Republicans.