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Beau says:
Recent events in Brazil mirror past events in the United States, warning against underestimating the ongoing threat of far-right authoritarianism and stressing the need for continued vigilance.
Activists, concerned citizens
The full transcript provides a detailed analysis of the parallels between recent events in Brazil and the United States, urging vigilance and action against the ongoing threat of far-right authoritarianism.
#FarRight #Authoritarianism #Nationalism #Brazil #UnitedStates
Well, howdy there, internet people.
It's Beau again.
So today, we are going to talk about a little bit of d??j?? vu
that I'm sure a lot of people are feeling.
I mean, the imagery even looks pretty similar.
We're going to talk about Brazil.
And we're going to talk about what the events down there
can teach us in the United States,
and pretty much everywhere else as well.
Because something happened.
If you missed it, we got a replay.
The supporters of a losing far-right authoritarian
politician, a politician who claimed he didn't lose,
who riled up his supporters on social media, and then fled.
Those supporters stormed the Capitol in Brazil
where Congress meets.
And the Supreme Court.
And the presidential palace.
Hundreds were arrested.
Chaos ensued.
The authorities are saying that everybody
will be brought to justice.
It all sounds really familiar, right?
And it really did.
It looked pretty similar.
Different colors.
But it looked pretty much the same.
Because it was pretty much the same.
There are a couple of lessons that
are readily apparent from this.
The first, and maybe the most important for some people,
is that the rhetoric and imagery that
gets used in the United States to stir up the far right,
it's not special.
It's just nationalism.
It's transferable to countries all over the world.
That stirring of false patriotism,
it's easy to manufacture.
If you have people who are aggressive,
those people who look back to a myth of what
yesteryear looked like.
It's easy to rile those people up
and get them to do your bidding while you're safe in Florida.
The other thing is it's not over.
This is for the rest of us.
It's not over.
There are people in the United States
who see Trump's diminishing power
and see it as something that's over.
It was this bad chapter in American history,
and now our long national nightmare
is over and all of this stuff.
It's not.
It's not over.
It's not over in the United States.
It's not over in Brazil.
And it can happen anywhere.
This far right authoritarian style of leadership
is easily mimicked.
They all got their plays from the same people
back in the 30s and 40s.
Those who stormed the buildings down there,
they were called fascist by a lot of people.
It's all the same.
And it's not over.
This fight continues.
We can't just pretend that it's stopped.
With everything that we've seen in the United States recently,
it should be abundantly clear that it is not over.
That style of leadership,
it will transfer to the next Xeroxed copy of Trump
because there wasn't that resounding defeat,
and this will go on and on until they win
or there is that resounding defeat.
This is one of those times when the polls matter.
It will keep happening.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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