Evo Morales responds to John Kerry: Never Again Will We Be Your Backyard

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109. Ok, I see. We're a capitalistic society, and we have an inbred fear of leftist governments.

Probably a holdover from the Cold War. Although we do do a lot of business with the Chinese, who are ostensibly commies. But they sell us their cheap labor, so they have something to exchange for our dollars.

I don't think the fear of us becoming commies is very rational, because, frankly, the commies will sell you their mothers' boots, just like the Capitalists will. So at the end of the day, we're not really all that different. Everyone is looking out for their own self-interests. The only difference is that under our system, the rich hold the power, and under the emerging LA models, the poor hold the power (although it looks to me like there could be some struggles in the future).

Even Hugo Chavez, who was diametrically opposed to literally everything the USA stood for, didn't seem to mind very much that his oil was making its way to our shores in exchange for dollars.

On edit: it's possible that The US also wants the rights to that lithium, although it doesn't make much sense to me, since we'd ship it all to China to be turned into batteries anyway. Maybe we could get a little of the value added, but I don't think it's all that much.