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Frankly, both our political parties are captured by an economic elite, more and more so since 2006,

and people who feel that that is the case are not incorrect when you look at the kinds of policies that are put forward on both sides of the aisle and the kinds of money that is going into our politics.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to

the retire and populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40. I traveled to the Czech Republic a few days

ago where a billionaire by the name of Andre Babish is likely to form the next government.

And it made me think of something that in that area of a world that was liberated from

communism after 1989 has done very well economically in many ways, you've now seen a very rapid decline of double democracy, so much so that you have

what I would like to call the populist belt in the middle of Central Europe.

You can now travel from the North Sea all the way to the

again through lands that are ruled by populists or in which populists have a huge role in the government.

You can drive from Poland, through Slovakia, through Hungary, through Serbia, through Macedonia, to Greece.

And in the next weeks and months it's likely that we can add the Czech Republic and Austria to that list.

In fact, when you look at the election results in Germany, large swaths of East Germany now see the alternative of Germany is being either the strongest party or the Sengestrocks party.

So there's really a massive landmass in the heart of Europe which had been liberated from outside domination after 1989 and which is now voluntarily

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