Reply #45: I Have HEARD... [View All]

[samfishX]

(...but I have no idea if it's true or it's it's just Reich-wing propaganda) that Chavez basically rules his country with an iron fist and people who disagree or move against his government "disappear" into prisons or just all together vanish; and that despite being democratically elected, he does not intend to step down when the next election rolls around.

Now, admittedly, the people who supposedly vanished are also the ones who overthrew the government briefly a few years back, which was a Bush/CIA supported coup attempt.

But still...I honestly don't know if any of that is even true or to what degree it might be. My gut tells me that some PART of it must be true, but it's being spun to all Hell to make him sound a lot worse than he might actually be.
The Repuglicans have done a FANTASTIC job of really muddying the waters when it comes to Chavez...and all I hear from the left, by and large, is usually nothing but praise and admiration for the guy.

The only reason I find that odd is because..well, hell– NOBODY here on the "left" EVER agrees on anything like they do on the issue Chavez being a good guy! So when I hear Democrats and liberals offering so much praise to the guy, my first reaction is to say, "something stinks...this is abnormal for "our side" to agree so unanimously..."


You know what I LOVE, though, is how every article about Chavez starts off with a line like, "Venezuela's LEFTIST ruler, Hugo Chavez said blah blah blah..." and then the article goes on to demonize the guy. The "liberal" media has done a great job of making the word "leftist" sound evil, while the Reich-wing media has done a good job of making the word "liberal" into just a dirty word.

I really do hate these people...