Glenn Greenwald: President's Impeachment Process in Brazil is a Trojan Horse for Neo-liberalism

[Judi Lynn]

May 5, 2016

Glenn Greenwald: President's Impeachment Process in Brazil is a Trojan Horse for Neo-liberalism

The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald says that President Dilma Rousseff's Vice President and would-be successor, Michel Temer, is a corrupt politician who would take the country on a sharp neoliberal turn

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http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16171

[pmorlan1]

1. Another Great Post

Judi Lynn. Thank you.

I worry about Greenwald being there with this happening.

[Judi Lynn]

2. The creeps who are howling for the return of the military dictatorship are not his friends,

and they are trying as hard as possible to grab the government, aren't they?

It never occurred to me before seeing your comment, he really could be in danger right now and forward until sanity gets the upper hand again.

Hope he's keeping his security in the forefront of his mind. Without a doubt he has enemies there, too, now that he has dared to speak out.

[MisterP]

3. especially as a gay man

[Judi Lynn]

4. The right-wing Representative Jair Bolsonaro claimed he would have killed his son if he were gay.

He also despises women, and saluted the principle torturer for the military dictatorship.

Sounds as if the heat is really rising around these lunatics as they attempt to seize control.

No doubt he would crave seeing gay journalists terrorized as soon as he thought his rightists could swing it without going to jail.

[MisterP]

5. sounds like either a saint-kicking Neopentecostal or one of those TFP freaks

that literally call Natives "savages" and are just puppets for deforestation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chute_na_santa_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition,_Family_and_Property
the military regime even brought its religious engineering to Umbanda, rerouting Afro-Atlantic religion as a symbol of militarized nationhood
it's a situation of status-quo conservatives vs. a hard right that wants to remake society, that wants to go beyond what those mere greedheads at the chambers of commerce want

[Judi Lynn]

6. Interesting term, "religious engineering." Very appropriate.

It's strange they were able to even stick those right-wing snouts into such a unique blend of religious elements. Disgusting.

Evangelical missionaries have gone everywhere, of course, for longer than US Americans seem to realize, and their work has not all been as "innocent" as they would have people believe.

So glad you mentioned the saint kicker. It seems almost impossible he's not from here, as it's just as bizarre, in such an awkward, ugly, stupid way, as US Pentecostal tv stars like Jimmy Swaggart.

[center]

Kick that saint! [/center]
I'm starting to wonder, seeing the clenching up of the US "tea party" and these military dictatorship promoters in S. America, if this new strain of right-wing maniac isn't more organized than it seems.

They probably went into over-drive the moment they realized the people of the Americas were speaking through their elections, and decided they were going to silence them, shut them all down again.

They are bound to lose, in the end, and they are too blinded by their greed, hatred, love of power to realize it now.

[MisterP]

7. the US Religious Right was the first example--the fundies even had a coup in the

Southern Baptists; this was the time Team B corrupted State and the Safari Club the ghosts; even pharmacists got caught up in the well-funded rightward swing 1976-80

America's never had a real conservative movement, just a few paranoid elites able to throw millions around and remake whole segments of society

this Flat-Earther shit doesn't happen in like Germany or Scotland