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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)of right wing parties gaining ground in Europe and our right wing parties here in the US. Most liberals are ignorant to the prolific breadth of the Republican brand and the work of their international branches in changing the general tenor of modern capitalism in many places in the world.
As I mentioned in the other thread my eyes were opened up when, more than 10 years ago, I was offered a job connection with the International Republican Institute in Eastern Europe (my friend, who was a work colleague, was unaware of my politics).
Not just their institutions but they have partnered and infiltrated neo-liberal institutions like the IMF and World bank and those institutions are very much involved in changing the way that European countries work.