There are a lot of "Treatlerites" in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere.

It's not just first-world BS, though there is plenty of that and more.

Honestly, a lot of "second world" countries are like this (those that were in the Warsaw Pact or apart of the socialist camp during the previous Cold War).

Good grief, even Bolivia had this problem when I was there in 2019 during the coup against MAS and Evo Morales's cabinet.

But honestly?

It is basically just rich suburbanites, never mind dumb pious Christian fascists.

Even the urbanites who went to private schools and were apart of Western multinationals had this bent.

Didn't even matter their background. They had everything and then some but wanted more.

The Indígenas, the campesinos, the poor and downtrodden, the rural folk, the city workers... They knew who was on their side.

It wasn't the treatlerites, certainly not the people that kept working on the Board of Directors of the multinationals there or the NGOs allied with the private schools there or old the shops and restaurants that had CNN Español on the TV and nothing else, etc..

"Bread and circuses" is what we castigate the poor for so we can still pal around with prideful champagne socialists.

Too many Western communists get angry and prideful that poor people don't come flocking to their banner.

But honestly

Poor people know what's up.

Do you?

/TED Talk completed