#BernieSanders: Western Politics Is Built On #Colonialism

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]What was the first question? Uh, I can Okay. Um, you said that, um, you support the base the rights of the working class. Um, why do you believe that the United States so violently tries to overthrow other forms of government such as socialist governments such as what happened in Chile in 1973 and in Cuba? Why is the United [music] States, um, responding to such moneyed interest?

[00:00:27]>> Good. Excellent question. Everyone hear the question?

[00:00:30]Okay. Look, look.

[00:00:31]If you look, and and not enough people do, >> [music] >> and that gets me into a whole other issue, which is the media, which I want to talk about cuz I'm very concerned about the media today and the degree to which [music] a few corporations control what we see, hear, and read. But, if you check American history, you know, sometimes the president will tell you, "Well, we are always defenders of freedom. We believe in freedom." But, if you check history, >> [music] >> what you will find is that in many years, especially in Latin America, which way back [music] from when President Monroe developed his Monroe Doctrine, we have the right to own Latin America and we will tell any government [music] there what we want to happen. That's the simple truth. So, throughout our history, we have overthrown many, many governments. We didn't like their form of government. In the case of Chile in 1973, what [music] you had is an election in which a guy named Salvador Allende won the election.

[00:01:23]Problem is Nixon and his friends didn't like him. Why? Because Salvador Allende fought for the poor people and the working people of that country. He belonged He believed that the resources of Chile, their copper mines and so forth, should belong to the people. And he won a free election. No one denied that for a second.

[00:01:41]It was a tough election and win by much, but he won a free election. There was another election. His party got more support.

[00:01:47]>> [music] >> He was overthrown by the CIA and corporate interests because corporate interests preferred, of course, that the United States companies dominate that country.

[00:01:57]And a lot of what politics is about going way, way back to the 19th century through England, France, is the domination of colonies [music] so that big companies in a given country can take the resources of [music] those countries for their own use. So, I think that's what happened and it was a very unfortunate day in American history. [music] Allende won in a democratic election, was popular, was overthrown and eventually killed. And in his place >> [music] >> a guy named General Pinochet took place, ran that country with an iron fist, killed many, many people, but it was okay. He was a good guy. Why?

[00:02:34]Because he was a friend of corporate America.