MAGAs don't notice that their President is turning the US into a banana republic because (humor)

[Vogon_Glory]

Bananas don’t grow very well on the North American mainland.

[malaise]

1. Every banana Republic in this hemisphere was backed by

US corporations, banks and the US government.
Now they have taken it home.

[markodochartaigh]

3. And not only were the soil and ecosystems brutalized

by the system, the workers were too.

[malaise]

4. Correct

Rec

[Vogon_Glory]

5. And most of those banana republics came pre-loaded with

authoritarian-minded upper classes who’d been hostile to the ideas of egalitarianism or democracy for decades before Sam Zemurray bought his first crate of bananas and brought it back to the US for resale. I do not justify or excuse the actions of the United Fruit Company, but a lot of those countries were also fertile ground for what they started, even without the US Marine Corps.

As for a lot of MAGA/Republican states here in the US, more than a few had been dominated economically and politically by one large corporation or another, and the guys on top deftly used racism as a political tool for years.

[malaise]

6. That was the prevailing thinking of racist elites

Across tge planet

[markodochartaigh]

2. ...because

Real Men™ don't eat fruit.

Actually, it is possible to fruit bananas as far north as hardiness zone 8a by protecting the pseudostem (trunk) over the winter.

[marble falls]

7. Stockholm Syndrome. Living in the belly of the beast is their new normal.