RT | The banks behind politicians in the western world “have allowed
the poor to rot,” and now the elites in those countries, especially the
US, are facing a revolt, journalist and author Tariq Ali told RT
America’s Chris Hedges in an exclusive interview.
“The elites who have
run the United States and western Europe have proven incapable of
offering even the smallest palliatives to their populations. They have
allowed the poor to rot ‒ regardless of skin color ‒ and grow,” Ali said. “And
so what we have is a protest against this center elite, which I call
the extreme center because whether it’s social democratic or
conservative, they unite to crush.”
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has become a perfect
example of this protest against the extreme center, he tells Hedges.
“They’ve
found in Trump someone who airs their most crazed fantasies at the same
time who attacks the banks, at the same time attacks these new treaties
which are being carried through and promises some palliatives to the
poorest section of the white working class,” Ali said.
The
right and the far right are growing around the world, while the left has
been weak. That is part of the reason that Democratic presidential
candidate Bernie Sanders wasn’t able to succeed, even though he also
offers an independent voice to the working class.
“I don’t
think that there’s anything on the radical left at the moment ‒ of
course, these things are volatile, things can happen,” he said.
