The Left Loves Hugo Chavez... in spite of it all

ModernConservative.com ^ | David Paulin

[connell]

London's left-wingers recently rolled out the red-carpet for Hugo Chávez; no matter that the populist leader has been a disaster for Venezuela's poor.

Venezuela President Hugo Chávez is a hero to the international left. It loves his combative anti-Americanism and diatribes against neoliberalism and globalization. There are some messy details it ignores and that the mainstream media underreports: Poverty, corruption, and crime have gotten significantly worse under Chávez. In Latin America, Chávez's popularity is waning as many see his agenda driven by a desire for power – not a genuine concern for the region and his fellow Venezuelans. Will his admirers continue to ignore reality?

[Enterprise]

"The Left Loves Hugo Chavez... in spite of it all"

Stockholm syndrome.

[mtbopfuyn]

Freud would have a field day with that character.

[connell]

Actually, I think that much of our country may be suffering from some Stockholm Syndrome, with a big, screaming baby as our captor, as I describe in this post.

[Enterprise]

"But the Democrats' analogue of this infantile behavior is entirely unbecoming, and unbefitting people who claim to be adults."

That was a very good article. You confirm what some of us have said that when the Republicans finally won, the adults were in charge again.

[connell]

Thanks; feel free to send the link around to anyone---we love the publicity!

... and I said the same exact thing (though I think I said "grownups") on election night 2000---about 20 minutes before Gore tried to steal the election!

[Thunder90]

PIng

[proud_yank]

Will his admirers continue to ignore reality?

Translated: Will the left ever grow up?

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" -Ayn Rand



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[jazusamo]

It's a shame that the left in the UK embrace him although it's not surprising. The scary thing here is that even though our left don't embrace him openly, I suspect many of them would go along with his antics if they controlled the three branches of government. Just a feeling.

[Sometimes A River]

Heck, they still love Castro even 45 years after his great fraud was uncovered.

[proud_yank]

If any of them in the US would swear to never enter America again, and there was a way to make it legally binding, I would be more than happy to purchase them a 1-way ticket.

I'd give it 4 months of living there before they start screaming about how they want to come back to the US.