{"id":109717,"date":"2016-11-15T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T01:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109717"},"modified":"2016-11-15T17:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T01:58:01","slug":"buzzfeed-this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109717","title":{"rendered":"Buzzfeed: This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World"},"content":{"rendered":"

LINK<\/a>: The soon-to-be White House chief strategist laid out a global vision in a rare 2014 talk, one where he said racism in the far right gets \u201cwashed out\u201d and called Vladimir Putin a kleptocrat. BuzzFeed News publishes the complete transcript for the first time:<\/p>\n

Steve Bannon: [World War I] triggered a century of barbaric \u2014 unparalleled in mankind\u2019s history \u2014 virtually 180 to 200 million people were killed in the 20th century, and I believe that, you know, hundreds of years from now when they look back, we\u2019re children of that: We\u2019re children of that barbarity. This will be looked at almost as a new Dark Age.
\nBut the thing that got us out of it, the organizing principle that met this, was not just the heroism of our people \u2014 whether it was French resistance fighters, whether it was the Polish resistance fighters, or it\u2019s the young men from Kansas City or the Midwest who stormed the beaches of Normandy, commandos in England that fought with the Royal Air Force, that fought this great war, really the Judeo-Christian West versus atheists, right? The underlying principle is an enlightened form of capitalism, that capitalism really gave us the wherewithal. It kind of organized and built the materials needed to support, whether it\u2019s the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East.
\nThat capitalism really generated tremendous wealth. And that wealth was really distributed among a middle class, a rising middle class, people who come from really working-class environments and created what we really call a Pax Americana. It was many, many years and decades of peace. And I believe we\u2019ve come partly offtrack in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union and we\u2019re starting now in the 21st century, which I believe, strongly, is a crisis both of our church, a crisis of our faith, a crisis of the West, a crisis of capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LINK: The soon-to-be White House chief strategist laid out a global vision in a rare 2014 talk, one where he said racism in the far right gets \u201cwashed out\u201d and called Vladimir Putin a kleptocrat. BuzzFeed News publishes the complete … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steve-bannon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t