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Fully 62% of Venezuelans say they are Chavistas.
The opposition goes on and on about how the Chavistas are ruining the country. There is not one word of truth to any of this, but more important is the wild bias of the Opposition. In all of my years reading the Venezuelan Opposition, not one Opposition person of any type has ever said one good thing about Chavez, his government, his movement or his followers. In other words, the Chavistas have simply never done one single positive thing for Venezuela. When someone cannot say one single good thing that their ideological enemies have ever done, I start to worry about them. Because that means you are dealing with an ideologue, a fanatic, and quite possibly a fascist.
Meet the Venezuelan Tea Party
At best the Venezuelan Opposition are rightwing ideologues. The Venezuelan Opposition is simply the Venezuelan Tea Party. Your average Opposition supporter is a Venezuelan Dittohead. The Venezuelan media is simply Fox News Venezuela with one important caveat: The media is a version of Fox Lies that is so exaggerated, you might think it is a parody. If you speak Spanish and go to Venezuela and turn on the TV, you will fall out of your chair when you see how the Opposition media talks about the Chavistas nonstop on a 24 hour news cycle.
It is some of the most over the top, hysterical propaganda you will anywhere.
And the Opposition owns 75% of the media. The Western media says Venezuela is a dictatorship. Can someone please explain how a rabidly fanatical and belligerent opposition owns 75% of the media in a dictatorship?
America Hearts Fascists
And you how the US ruling class and MSM can’t even enough of their fascist pals. The US elite has been palling around with their fascist and rightwing dictator BFF’s for over 100 years.
In fact, looking at the last century, the best conclusion you can come to is that except for a brief interlude, America Loves Fascism. Not that Americans are fascists. We are not. But we can’t get enough of our fascist boyfriends.
The “free” Western media of course echoes their heroes, the fascists of Venezuela.
Alice in Venezuela Land
Listening to the Opposition describe Venezuela, you would wonder why anyone in their right mind would support the Chavistas. Yet we see in the latest polls that 62% of Venezuelans are proud Chavistas. There is a reason the Opposition has been losing elections for 15 years now at the federal, state and municipal level.
They lack majority support. The majority of Venezuelans either dislike or actively hate them, and they don’t think the Opposition has a better plan for the country. Most Venezuelans think the Opposition are their class enemies, and they would be right. Your average person thinks that if the Opposition gets in, they will only make things worse.Venezuela is one place where history never stopped, and there was no reversion.
Sure, Venezuela has problems, but most Venezuelans blame those on the Opposition. And in many cases, they are correct.
When asked why they love being Chavistas, Venezuelans will rattle off a long list of the achievements of the Chavistas.
The Opposition refuses to acknowledge even one of these achievements, not even one. And in many cases, Chavistas will tell you that the Chavista project has objectively improved the lives of them, their friends and their loved ones. When faced with a choice of an objectively improved existence versus an Opposition that lies and tells you that you are hallucinating your improved lives, it’s not hard to understand why most Venezuelans are contemptuous of the Opposition and its surreal media.
Are 62% of Venezuelans really so stupid that they think a system that has ruined them and their country is actually the greatest thing since Kleenex? The opposition would have you believe that people are just that stupid.
We Had to Destroy the Country to Save It
The Opposition hates the Chavista project so much that they will do anything to bring it down. They will riot in the streets, murder doctors and nurses in cold blood, fire guns and set off bombs, plan coup after endless coup and even try to ruin the economy that they themselves depend on. Yes, that is true. The Opposition hates Chavez so much that they will ruin the whole country just to bring down Chavismo.
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Oooooh oh, I’ll never understand!
Oooooh oh, complete control
Lemme see your other hand!I don’t trust you!
Why should you trust me?
Huh?All over the news spread fast
They’re dirty! They’re filthy!
They ain’t gonna last!The Clash, Complete Control (1979)
Your average Venezuelan is highly politically educated. Their political consciousness makes most Americans seem like Special Ed students. Unlike Americans, Venezuelans are very hip to lying and propaganda. They have heard all of the Opposition arguments and have been told why those arguments are all wrong. Most Venezuelans don’t even watch or listen to opposition media because they think they that media does nothing but lie. And in fact, they are correct.