The US Is Now a Banana Republic
The Republican attempt to impeach Joe Biden when even they admit that they have no evidence that he did what they're charging him with is corrupt as Hell, and it's straight out of banana republics and African and Arab dictatorships.
What they do in those countries is as soon as a new government, usually a rightwing one in Latin America, comes to power, the first thing they do is go after their political enemies in the opposing party.
In some cases as in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Colombia, the first thing the new rightwing government did was send out death squads to murder the opposition leaders and supporters. In the case of Guatemala and Colombia, they were still murdering them even decades later.
The message is clear. If you elect a leftwing government, it will be overthrown by a rightwing coup and then the new government will go after the leaders and supporters of the overthrown Left government. Sort of makes you not want to vote for the Left, huh?
In most cases they are not so murd…
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