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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: What's Wrong With America Looking More Like Scandinavia? [View all]newthinking
(3,982 posts)the US in no small part. Most Americans are very ignorant to the fact that our right wing groups (Republican Institute, "Think tanks", NGOs, etc) have been operating for decades in Europe with the same tactics as here and they have been very effective in helping previously marginalized right wing political factions to move forward there.
My eyes were opened up to this when a friend of mine (who did not know my politics) said he could hook me up with a job with the International Republicans in the area of Eastern Europe I had spent time in. I was SHOCKED. I asked him "You mean *our* Republicans are building institutions there? To which I learned is the case. Much of it done on *our* taxes!
Wake up folks. Our Right wing and corporate forces have been way ahead of liberal international institutions and have created a higher demand for greed based economics all over the world.
They are very active in our "Democracy promotion" and "color revolutions. Everything they touch turns to chaos because they are not really democratic forces. Question everything!