Some things never change:
Posted on 07/10/2016 6:14:45 AM PDT by doghorse
Not long ago, the regime that Hugo Chávez founded was an object of fascination for progressives worldwide, attracting its share of another-world-is-possible solidarity activists. Today, as the country sinks deeper into the Western Hemisphere’s most intractable political and economic crisis, the time has come to ask some hard questions about how this regime — so obviously thuggish in hindsight — could have conned so many international observers for so long.
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That would be some bias or ignorance on the part of the author.
I think we all know the "cause" of their problems: unmitigated greed.
A few wealthy families own MOST of the third world sewers' lands, money, militaries and governments.
The seven deadly sins: pride/arrogance, greed, anger, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. THEY provide the answers...that and a lot of work from Satan and his minions.
They just didn’t do it right.
(Standard leftist boiler plate)
Obama has conned them and us for eight years
it is not hard if you want to believe what he says and he does the opposite
Socialism Fail! Who coulda seen this coming? Certainly no one at WaPo.
Some things never change:
Give me a break. This is easily answered with a single image and a Caption that reads: "Our Hero" that summarizes perfectly for me the mindset of all liberals and certainly the referred to "international observers". These people foolishly believe in the nonsense written by this Economic Idiot.
This is the washington post? Great Scott! There’s hope yet. On a side note, the gun club down the street is ultrabusy this morning.
Wasn’t Stalin photoshopped into that heir-apparent pose with the dying Lenin?
What to know about communism:
1) communism is a pack of lies.
2) communists are liars.
You can just as well substitute socialism or progressivism.
“Wasn’t Stalin photoshopped into that heir-apparent pose with the dying Lenin?”
I don’t think so. Lenin wasn’t able to say much of anything so Stalin just kind of photobombed himself into it. Photo retouching back then was mostly limited to airbrushing “nonpersons” out of photos, not seamlessly inserting people into them. Not that I’m an expert or anything.
They didn't learn then, and they still won't learn. If they had, Bernie Sanders couldn't get elected treasurer of the neighborhood beautification project, let alone be a serious candidate for the presidency.
The “working class” wasn’t conned, at least not for long. That’s where the thugs come in. The “intellectuals” still seem to be buying the con.
We do know that Trotsky was Lenin’s chosen successor and that Lenin regarded Stalin as dangerous. True enough.
In some doctored photos/films a nonperson was blotted out by inserting shadowy figures into the foreground.
“Who controls the past controls the future.”
freedomwinsout, Maduro won’t go after Chavez’s daughter. He is too busy accumulating his own billions. Can’t those Hollywood types chip in? Leftist leaders live like kings because they deserve it because they are so compassionate. They love the “little people” and want them to share in the wealth while it lasts. In the words of that great economics intellect, Celine Dion: “Let them touch those things for once.”
Does jimmy carter get a cut for his support in “certifying” the “elections?”
When socialists go out of favor within a socialist country, they become un-persons. When socialist leaders destroy a socialist country, they become “not the right leaders,” because socialism works, if they have the right leaders.
Nice to see that even this tepid an article runs in the Post.
Would be great if they would have included Jimmy Carter’s involvement in election observations since that is a main topic of the article.
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