The Destruction of Latin America’s Left And Lessons for Everyone

This is not particularly well written or researched but it calls out a global trend and points to the degradation of governance itself.  I wholly agree that this is a global trend but would like to go further to speculate the cause -- The collapse of capitalism as the world's economic system that can not be stopped because it is baked in.  In the chaos of collapse mighty fortunes can be mantained and obsene profits can still be pocketed that populations would never agreed to if thing were democratic.  This of course has been going on for many years.  The smart money is on taking over the government and destroying anything progressive. As I have said elsewhere democracy is too dangerous.

The so-called marea rosa, or ‘pink tide’, of allied leftist governments which held sway across Latin America in previous years is being rolled back. Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff was removed from power in a right-wing coup, co-conspirators of which have now managed to imprison the current presidential frontrunner, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno has stabbed his former leader Rafael Correa in the back by barring him from seeking re-election, while seemingly purging his cabinet of remaining Correa loyalists and beginning the process of allowing the US military back into the country.

This is a very dirty game, and left-wingers keep treating it as if it is not: as if there are rules, and both sides play by them. Increasingly in the US that is not the case, and it is clearly not the case many other places. If your enemies win, they will destroy you by any means. You should think long and hard about what you will do to them if you get into power, because they know what they will do to you.

I do not necessarily agree with this last though but then I do not have and alternative proposal.  I just know where we are going, that at some point it will brake, shit will fly and heads will role.



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