with him that went on for more than an hour. we ll have more on that in a moment. we re goingnd to w speak to hisn ,butt we re here in brazil broadcasting all week for a reason. heth if you re worried about the future of the united statesa ,this is a goodce place to come. to get a glimpse of it ork what it might look like depending on what choices we make, brazil, united states have much more in commonve m thc we realize. both are huge countries, but actually the larger than the continental united states countries with deep natural resources , diverse physicalro environment, diverse population and a very dividediv political climate. on one sideidal you have p a nationalist party that s currently in power. now these controls the executive in brazil. on the other side you haveav in effect a globale, party andto the tone of the politics here is bitter and the stakes are very high. people go to prison in brazil routinely when they loseti elections. to ahe reason we re here is tak
and then to make the humiliation complete, police collected household pets, tore them from their owners hands, and beat them to death in the streets, claiming that dogs and cats somehow spread disease. anyone who complained about this at a very clear answer from the government, which was broadcast at full volume from drones circling overhead. they said control your soul s desire for freedom, so people did. they had no choice. that is what life is like in an authoritarian society. and not just in china. also in new zealand. less than a year ago, the left-wing new zealand government shutdown the entire country over a single covid case. don t talk to your neighbors, commended the prime minister, keep to your bubbles. in neighboring australia they did pretty much the same thing. police in australia beat a man for daring to have a cigarette outside his own apartment. that may all seem horrifying toc health authorities here loved it. they looked on in envy. unfortunately for tony
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