What My Fellow Liberals Don't Get About Venezuela

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Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse. But the economy collapsed in 2016, before sanctions against Venezuelan oil companies were imposed.
  • The only sanctions at that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy in Venezuela.
 
Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse, but the economy collapsed in 2016, before widespread economic sanctions were imposed.
  • The only sanctions up until that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy

You see "bad news" I see a perfectly orchestrated Socialist Success Story.

What was the Chavez family worth before they took over? Peanuts, right? Today they're worth $4 to 5 BILLION!!! Let that sink in! It's a rousing Progressive, Socialist success. Stop crying over the people who thought that surrendering their guns and freedoms was going to somehow magically work out "better" for them
 
Also, I used to think that Pinochet was a Bad Guy. After this, maybe helicopter rides aren't such a bad idea after all
 
Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse. But the economy collapsed in 2016, before sanctions against Venezuelan oil companies were imposed.
  • The only sanctions at that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy in Venezuela.

Nope, Trump done it.


Scratch that, Putin done it.
 
Also, I used to think that Pinochet was a Bad Guy. After this, maybe helicopter rides aren't such a bad idea after all
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Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse. But the economy collapsed in 2016, before sanctions against Venezuelan oil companies were imposed.
  • The only sanctions at that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy in Venezuela.


What YOU don't get about liberals!

We do NOT want to be like VENEZUELA!

YOU are the (%&%?$#%^&) who keep TELLING US that WE WANT TO BE LIKE VENEZUELA!

We keep telling you; "no no! not venezuela! FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN!"

Can we talk about Finland and Norway?

I don't mean to offend but I'd like to know what the fuk is wrong with the brain of a person who keeps claiming "liberals want to be like venezuela" when we keep telling you we don't!
 
Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse. But the economy collapsed in 2016, before sanctions against Venezuelan oil companies were imposed.
  • The only sanctions at that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy in Venezuela.


What YOU don't get about liberals!

We do NOT want to be like VENEZUELA!

YOU are the (%&%?$#%^&) who keep TELLING US that WE WANT TO BE LIKE VENEZUELA!

We keep telling you; "no no! not venezuela! FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN!"

Can we talk about Finland and Norway?

I don't mean to offend but I'd like to know what the fuk is wrong with the brain of a person who keeps claiming "liberals want to be like venezuela" when we keep telling you we don't!
I thought the Venezuelan in the OP was talking about the anti-American left IN HER OWN COUNTRY. Obviously, at least from what I've seen here, the left doesn't support that Maduro government at all. That's probably because the left in this country isn't actually socialist/communist as we are always being blamed.
 
Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse. But the economy collapsed in 2016, before sanctions against Venezuelan oil companies were imposed.
  • The only sanctions at that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy in Venezuela.


What YOU don't get about liberals!

We do NOT want to be like VENEZUELA!

YOU are the (%&%?$#%^&) who keep TELLING US that WE WANT TO BE LIKE VENEZUELA!

We keep telling you; "no no! not venezuela! FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN!"

Can we talk about Finland and Norway?

I don't mean to offend but I'd like to know what the fuk is wrong with the brain of a person who keeps claiming "liberals want to be like venezuela" when we keep telling you we don't!
I thought the Venezuelan in the OP was talking about the anti-American left IN HER OWN COUNTRY. Obviously, at least from what I've seen here, the left doesn't support that Maduro government at all. That's probably because the left in this country isn't actually socialist/communist as we are always being blamed.

"the left doesn't support that Maduro government at all."

But they do support Maduro and the International Left do support Maduro, just like they all supported Chavez and Castro in Cuba etc. With Venezuela they all insist the disaster in Venezuela has ZERO to do with Maduro or Chavez and it is all because of falling oil prices combined with the sanctions which is totally not correct on any level.
 
Also, I used to think that Pinochet was a Bad Guy. After this, maybe helicopter rides aren't such a bad idea after all

Yeah, you know it’s funny. I’ve never supported coups before. But After the absolute incompetence of two decades of socialist rule, you can make a strong humanitarian argument for it.
 
What YOU don't get about liberals!

We do NOT want to be like VENEZUELA!

YOU are the (%&%?$#%^&) who keep TELLING US that WE WANT TO BE LIKE VENEZUELA!

We keep telling you; "no no! not venezuela! FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN!"

Can we talk about Finland and Norway?

I don't mean to offend but I'd like to know what the fuk is wrong with the brain of a person who keeps claiming "liberals want to be like venezuela" when we keep telling you we don't!
Let's talk about Scandinavia for a moment.

All of those nations have the populations roughly the size of South Carolina...They all have market-based economies (NOT socialism)...All are so heavily taxed that their economies are utterly moribund...Their fuel prices are absurdly high and the taxes on new cars nearly double their prices...There is virtually NO personal economic mobility...Disposable income is nearly non-existent...Norway has the wealth of nationalized North Sea crude oil to support their welfare state.

But I guess they live in very nice gilded cages.
 
Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse. But the economy collapsed in 2016, before sanctions against Venezuelan oil companies were imposed.
  • The only sanctions at that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy in Venezuela.


What YOU don't get about liberals!

We do NOT want to be like VENEZUELA!

YOU are the (%&%?$#%^&) who keep TELLING US that WE WANT TO BE LIKE VENEZUELA!

We keep telling you; "no no! not venezuela! FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN!"

Can we talk about Finland and Norway?

I don't mean to offend but I'd like to know what the fuk is wrong with the brain of a person who keeps claiming "liberals want to be like venezuela" when we keep telling you we don't!

That wasn’t the subject of the OP, Karl.
 
Also, I used to think that Pinochet was a Bad Guy. After this, maybe helicopter rides aren't such a bad idea after all

Yeah, you know it’s funny. I’ve never supported coups before. But After the absolute incompetence of two decades of socialist rule, you can make a strong humanitarian argument for it.

The only solution now is the overthrow of the Maduro Government and the complete removal of Maduro, I see no other option. The Venezuelans are in an humanitarian crisis of epic levels.
 
Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse. But the economy collapsed in 2016, before sanctions against Venezuelan oil companies were imposed.
  • The only sanctions at that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy in Venezuela.


What YOU don't get about liberals!

We do NOT want to be like VENEZUELA!

YOU are the (%&%?$#%^&) who keep TELLING US that WE WANT TO BE LIKE VENEZUELA!

We keep telling you; "no no! not venezuela! FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN!"

Can we talk about Finland and Norway?

I don't mean to offend but I'd like to know what the fuk is wrong with the brain of a person who keeps claiming "liberals want to be like venezuela" when we keep telling you we don't!
I thought the Venezuelan in the OP was talking about the anti-American left IN HER OWN COUNTRY. Obviously, at least from what I've seen here, the left doesn't support that Maduro government at all. That's probably because the left in this country isn't actually socialist/communist as we are always being blamed.

"the left doesn't support that Maduro government at all."

But they do support Maduro and the International Left do support Maduro, just like they all supported Chavez and Castro in Cuba etc. With Venezuela they all insist the disaster in Venezuela has ZERO to do with Maduro or Chavez and it is all because of falling oil prices combined with the sanctions which is totally not correct on any level.
huh. Considering you think the left all support terrorists, too, Lucy, I hesitate to take your word for it. Forgive me.
 
Also, I used to think that Pinochet was a Bad Guy. After this, maybe helicopter rides aren't such a bad idea after all

Yeah, you know it’s funny. I’ve never supported coups before. But After the absolute incompetence of two decades of socialist rule, you can make a strong humanitarian argument for it.

The only solution now is the overthrow of the Maduro Government and the complete removal of Maduro, I see no other option. The Venezuelans are in an humanitarian crisis of epic levels.
You Austrians going to do that?
 
Excellent piece by a Venezuelan liberal saying how clueless the knee-jerk anti-Americans are about Venezuela.

Opinion | What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela

In the video, because of two decades of Chavez and Maduro rule, she says

  • There is total chaos in Venezuela - hunger, lack of medicines and power black-outs
  • Liberals are promoting and glorifying a brutal dictator
  • Inflation is at 2,690,000%. Venezuelan money is so worthless, people are literally making origami out of it.
  • Malnutrition and lack of medicine has caused life expectancy to decline by 3 to 5 years.
  • 3,000,000 million have fled the country causing a Syria-level refugee crisis
  • Things have gotten so bad that kidnappers have stopped kidnapping because people can't pay ransoms
  • The Left blame American sanctions for economic collapse. But the economy collapsed in 2016, before sanctions against Venezuelan oil companies were imposed.
  • The only sanctions at that time were travel-bans and frozen bank accounts of individuals who were connected to the government and had stolen billions of dollars.
  • Leftists who think the country is doing fine are on another planet
  • American sanctions are to restore Venezuelan democracy.
  • Fifty-one countries recently recognized the opposition leader, Juan Guaido as the interim President after the Maduro government fraudulently stored the last election
  • Guaido is not a conservative. He is a social democrat.
  • If there's one value liberal America appreciates, it's human rights. So liberals have to stop their moral relativism regarding Venezuela.
  • American liberals should support humanitarian aid and efforts to restore democracy in Venezuela.


What YOU don't get about liberals!

We do NOT want to be like VENEZUELA!

YOU are the (%&%?$#%^&) who keep TELLING US that WE WANT TO BE LIKE VENEZUELA!

We keep telling you; "no no! not venezuela! FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN!"

Can we talk about Finland and Norway?

I don't mean to offend but I'd like to know what the fuk is wrong with the brain of a person who keeps claiming "liberals want to be like venezuela" when we keep telling you we don't!
I thought the Venezuelan in the OP was talking about the anti-American left IN HER OWN COUNTRY. Obviously, at least from what I've seen here, the left doesn't support that Maduro government at all. That's probably because the left in this country isn't actually socialist/communist as we are always being blamed.

"the left doesn't support that Maduro government at all."

But they do support Maduro and the International Left do support Maduro, just like they all supported Chavez and Castro in Cuba etc. With Venezuela they all insist the disaster in Venezuela has ZERO to do with Maduro or Chavez and it is all because of falling oil prices combined with the sanctions which is totally not correct on any level.


to conservatives (it seems to me, judging by their own words) EVERYONE to the LEFT of LIMBAUGH is a LEFTIST!

As a lib/prog who opposes left wing extremism as much as I oppose right wing extremism I wish to thank you for being so fkn smart that YOU know what I BELIEVE and are so fkn kind that you are willing to inform me!

Thanks!

Now could you please tell me what I think about coke versus pepsi?
 

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