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They call it "spreading democracy."
What they mean is: installing the outcome they prefer and calling that outcome democratic.
When the vote goes the right way, it's "democracy flourishing."
When the vote goes the wrong way, when a country elects a socialist, a nationalist, anyone who intends to use national resources for national benefit rather than international capital's benefit, it becomes a "crisis requiring outside intervention."
The democracy they're spreading is not the process.
It's the result.
And the result is always the same: a government that will sign the trade agreements, allow the military bases, keep the IMF appointments, maintain the correct relationship to the global dollar system.
That government can be as brutal as it wants.
Call it a democracy loudly enough and the Senate will confirm the ambassador.
The Somozas, the Pahlavis, the Pinochets: all "friends of democracy."
The democratic leaders who wanted to own their country's resources: all "threats to stability."
The pattern is not subtle.
It has just been very successfully relabeled.
