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In reply to the discussion: No progressives should be demanding new elections in Venezuela due to Chavez' health... [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)For some reason, they still buy into the bullshit notion that the U.S. is entitled to set the limits of the political spectrum throughout the hemisphere(and possibly the world) and that when OUR government intervenes in other countries, it's always for purer and more "democratic" reasons than when any other regime does it.
They don't understand that they're abetting an imperial project when they accept that notion of how our government operates in the world. They need to read Latin American history...and they damn sure need to read Chomsky and Zinn.
A lot of these folks sound like the "New Republic" editors during the Reagan era(the ones whose unquestioning support of everything the Gipper did in Latin America made the phrase "even the liberal New Republic" one of Reagan's most frequently repeated lines)...obsessed with sounding just as "patriotic" as the Right.
They've swallowed the propaganda and they didn't even taste it going down.
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