Ep. 342 - The United States Helped Overthrow This Democracy. Yesterday the People Responded.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today, just for a moment, let me raise your international political IQ if you don't mind. |
| 0:08.0 | Because here in the United States, our mainstream news sources and most of our mainstream reporters just don't talk about the most important stories outside of the United States. |
| 0:21.0 | Now if you travel outside of the United States, I'm not saying that all the |
| 0:23.6 | new sources are reliable, but when you leave this country, the world actually |
| 0:28.9 | talks about the world. And yesterday, I think what might be the single most important electoral |
| 0:38.4 | political moment of the year so far happened. It was in Bolivia and I want to unpack and explain why it matters and |
| 0:46.8 | really also give you some context for the horrible involvement that the United States |
| 0:52.2 | had. |
| 0:52.9 | This is Sean King and you are listening to |
| 0:55.0 | the breakdown. The Breakdown. The Breakdown. |
| 1:03.0 | If everything you know about. |
| 1:07.0 | If everything you know about history comes from high school history books or elementary or middle school history books, |
| 1:20.0 | you would not know that the United States over and over again has been a part of |
| 1:28.6 | overthrowing democratically elected governments while holding itself up as the world's greatest democracy, |
| 1:38.0 | this country, over and over again, as late as last year, I'm not just talking about some ancient colonial period, as late as |
| 1:47.6 | last year, the United States, which is one of the most influential, of course, wealthy countries of the world. |
| 1:57.2 | When the United States backs a coup, |
| 2:00.3 | it's hard to stop it. |
| 2:01.9 | And the people of Bolivia elected Evo Morales last year as their president. |
| 2:11.2 | Period. |
| 2:11.8 | Pointblank.com. It was a Democratic election. President. supported a group of moderates and conservatives who were not |
| 2:25.2 | democratically elected. It would be like Joe Biden wins the presidency. I |
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