WAY too much to bring over but joshcryer has the Chavezistas crying. Of particular note is bitchkitty who made a prominent appearance in my "Just ****ing wow" thread in her unceasing display of sympathy for the child rapist killed by his victim's father. She's in full bloom here as well as the usual defects.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014141793I stand corrected: THIS is worth bringing over:
sabrina 1 (26,603 posts)
23. Compare Rightwing rallies here for the presidential election to Leftwing rallies, even when the
right winger is a war criminal and you would think the people would know better.
You do know this guy's history I'm sure, and for the sake of the people of Venezuela, I would not wish a far right winger on them or anyone else. When did democrats begin rooting for the far right in Venezuela btw, I was trying to remember exactly when it began and the closest I came was around 2004. According to revelations, some from Wikileaks, a lot of money has been poured into getting that support here, for what reason since it's no one's business here who those people elect, you have to wonder about.
What I hope is that if Chavez loses, Venezuela gets the equivalent of a good, progressive democrat here, rather than the equivalent of a corrupt, far right tea-bagger type who would plunge their country back to where it was before Chavez was elected and spent his time improving the conditions of the poor.
ChangoLoa (1,772 posts)
27. So now, Capriles is a war criminal...
And a far right politician?
Would you care to give any argument supporting that very peculiar view?
Not even the Venezuelan chavista say what you say... because it sounds very funny and strange in our internal context.
Just in case, for the 3 or 4 usual witch-hunters in DU, I'm a Venezuelan and have always militated in socialist or marxist organizations. For me, Capriles is a centrist - so not my cup of tea indeed - but he clearly is left to the US Democratic party which, for Venezuelan standards, is a (kind of center) right wing party. Not an extreme right wing party, like the Republican party is, but still not a progressive party.
In his proposals ('officialization' of all social programs in the Constitution, complete disarm of the population, a significant increase in the public investment in education and a reduction of the military spending), Capriles if left to (almost) any US Democratic party leader.
I'm curious: do you consider Obama to be a far right winger too?
sabrina 1 (26,603 posts)
35. Who is his father? And who are his coalition partners?
ChangoLoa (1,772 posts)
47. His father was a businessman in the cookies industry I think. Have you heard about JFK's?
... JFK's quasi-hitlerian father?
OOF!
