Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Border Crisis? How About A Right to Stay Home


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The right wing depends on fear and hatred of others. As we approach elections, their TV ads seek to scare us about a surge at the border. Why don’t they stay home? What if they were white? Today’s guest Avi Chomsky asks if Central Americans really have a choice?  Long subjugated to the “security and prosperity” of the few at the top, now the severe effects of climate change in Central America have destroyed the ability to keep living there. The exploitation and extraction economy replaced their natural farming with cattle, cotton, and sugar, destroying their land. Chomsky argues not just Trump’s but Biden’s border policies also ignore a real solution.
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