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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 681 - Italy just elected a racist, fascist, ultra-conservative as their new Prime Minister. Here's why it should matter to you.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The United States exports a few things around the world. One of them is white supremacy and ultra conservative ideology. The latest recipient? ITALY - which just elected its single most conservative politician since World War II.

And what's wild is that she is literally parroting and quoting the exact same talking points we hear from white supremacists in the United States. It's dangerous - and bigots around the world are literally celebrating.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What if the world listened more? Maybe it could become a better place.

0:05.5

Because when we really listen, we smarten out as things, things that don't sound quite bright.

0:11.6

They might not seem obvious at first, but listen closely and they stand out like a soul plum,

0:17.9

and the more we glisten the door we learn, our ears help us find belter solutions.

0:22.8

And things can change from this to something a little more like this.

0:33.9

The Honda Jazz is a hybrid, Honda, the power of dreams.

0:40.4

To some of you this might come as a surprise and to others of us not so much,

0:45.2

but Italy has just elected a racist xenophobic far right fascist.

0:54.0

To be their new leader, her name is Georgia Maloney and I am deeply concerned,

1:01.0

because she is the most ultra conservative person elected to lead Italy, really since World War II.

1:09.5

And if you've never been to Europe, you may not understand how close all of these countries are.

1:18.3

They are literally as close as our American states and they're all right there.

1:24.2

And so what grows and fester and becomes popular in one country spreads to another.

1:31.9

Let me unpack and explain it. This is Sean Kane and you're listening to...

1:36.2

The Breakdown.

1:55.2

Since World War II, which increasingly is becoming distant history for us,

2:00.2

we're almost at the point where very few living survivors of World War II are still around to tell the story.

2:09.7

But since World War II, the United States has had...

2:13.5

I'm just making a quick guess here, something like 13 presidents.

2:19.2

But Italy has had somewhere in the ballpark of like 60 prime ministers.

2:23.8

And in Italy, particularly over the past few years, they have just been chewing through and spitting out prime ministers left and right.

2:33.3

And they're dealing with an enormous amount of political corruption and political instability.

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