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"I genuinely think MAGA is a third world ideology.
- Caudillo style cult of the leader like Perón or Chávez
- Witch doctor/shaman approach to public health
- Juche economics of self-reliance
- Hatred for Europe & Canada
- Admiration for Latin American dictatorships
- Cronyism, clientelism, patronage networks that look like RU in the
1990s
Here's one example:
The MAGA approach to public health probably has..."
-D Pavlou
If by "third-world" he means displays characteristics associated with areas colonized by Europeans/Americans, then those are (largely) the results of imperialism and its effects on the colonized society. Pointing to deformities in those political systems as if they were self-generated and foreign to "us Americans" is a perpetuation of this imperialist thinking.
can describe in more detail for any item on the list if necessary, but wanted to flag this framing as unhelpful in understanding how embedded in U.S. history and actions these phenomena are.
And "witch doctor"?? - c'mon!
@christinkallama
These are just bullet points, but he reveals some of what's behind Trump's dystopian ideology. Digging deeper does implicate the US.
Yeah, the bullet point approach doesn't allow for subtlety.
Because Mbeki's AIDS denialism was based on Anglo-American claims, and herbal cures and other nonsense have a well-established history in all kinds of other places, so holding it up as a "these crazy people in Africa and now we're thinking like them" is a distortion, not a revelation.
@KimPerales
Well, yes. That's what Fascism is.