Holy Chiquita, readers, we’ve become a banana republic.
This politically incorrect term, no doubt soon to have its meaning manipulated in the manner of words like raid, transitory and fascism, was coined as a condescending term for small nations, particularly in Central America.
Specifically, it noted how the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) acquired so much power in the likes of Guatemala and Honduras that it basically ran the countries.
The term was broadened in meaning to denote countries in which government, politics and the legal system largely were corrupt and the common people were exploited by the elites.
Sound familiar?
Am I saying the United States now is a banana republic? Why yes, I am.
Let us enumerate how.
Led by Clueless Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor in the Oval Office, our nation’s intelligence community has been turned into no more then secret service units whose purpose is to harass and imprison political opponents.
Our election system, once a world model for integrity, produced highly questionable vote counting in 2020, a trend likely to continue.
Our nation’s top justice officials have become political operatives, borrowing from the mantra of communist dictatorial regimes: Show me the man, and I’ll show you (make up) the crime.
Our court system below the Supreme level has devolved into a two-tiered operation, used to sentence harshly opponents and reward toadies with acquittals or watered-down sentences.
The buying of votes by way of governmental handouts has become rampant and, incredibly, widely accepted.
While the justice system investigators harass political opponents, misdeeds of political friendlies are largely ignored, or at most punished with the lightest slap on the wrist. Hunter Biden is the poster boy.
Truth, once an absolute concept, has been put into the propaganda blender and massaged, manipulated, and outright flipped on its head, all to serve the purposes of those in power.
Social media outlets, relative newcomers to the art of the banana republic, have been enlisted to squelch free speech, isolate those who would not accept blindly the prevailing propaganda, and to seek to punish economically any who dare to question. Consider Zuck’s Rogan podcast admission of same.
Those in power demonize those who vote for the opposition. From Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” comment, to Clueless Joe’s “semi-fascists,” to the general derogatory terms such as terrorists and/or racists applied to Republicans and those on the political right, the rhetoric is over-the-top.
One oft-seen long-term result in so-called banana republics, as written into the history books regarding nations of the Caribbean, Central America and South America, is revolution.
Eventually, the aggrieved populace rebels and throws off the yoke of oppression. But it can be a long, painful wait.
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