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How Trump Taught America to Tolerate Brazen Corruption
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Now that's some irony! We call them "Banana Republics" because of how they were dominated and exploited by American fruit companies, with support from the US government, up to and including building private armies and calling in the CIA to do coup d'etats. The only thing new here is that the Republicans are normalizing doing the corruption to ourselves instead of just to others.
Ah, grue. We meet again.
+1 on the history here. The history of Dole Corporation in Hawaii is also a fascinating read.
My only riposte is, Republicans have not.merely.exploited corruption, but openly embraced it and invited Common Americans to ride along on the adventure. If we survive this, it will take a century at.keast to unfurl and air out in the social realm. It's not even clear at this point whether the environmental damage could be undone.
Sadly we'll be at war with Canada in 15 years to literate their fresh water and oil sands from Godless Socialism, because they won't be charging fealty or usury for insulin and aspirin. The US.will export Freedom at gunpoint, as we do.
But! 50 hears hence, well have arable land and a Northwest Passage! Wouldn't that be a feat?
/s, times being what they are. Dense.
At least Franklins Expedition didn’t fail for nothing.
You are more technically correct, but in common parlance for those who do not seek out to become more informed about history and politics beyond high school, the vast majority of I guess 'laypeople' just think that terms like banana republic and third world country just mean a poor country with unstable government, despite those terms not really actually meaning that.
The reasons why this happens are hilariously also basically the Republicans fault:
Anti Intellectualism is a big thing for most of them culturally, and Republican policies demonstrably have seriously worsened the quality of a K-12 education all across the country, and kept many families poor and unable to access higher education.
... and it is nearly always Republican talking heads and political figures which spent decades being the most prolific users of those terms incorrectly, while televised and in print or later online journalism, contributing largely to normalizing the incorrect usage of these and other similar terms.