Lester Golden
Nov 12, 2023

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We live in a world of metastasizing globalizing idiocracy. The Italian language offers the best description: la madre degli scemi e sempre incinta (la madre de los tontos esta siempre embarazada/the mother of the idiots is always pregnant).

As with fascism, Italy, with Berlusconi, pioneered media-driven populist kleptocracy whose core constituency is men in a panic about lost status and manhood. They take the cult-peddling kleptocrat's red pill in a political version of a little blue pill. Berlusconi, Trump and Bolsonaro sell the gendered political viagra of themselves as the only old white guys they know who live like rap stars.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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