Here's what I would have said to Hugo Chavez, had I seen him at the last

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79. Mmm interesting expansion of the theory. At least you provide more detail for this

particular fantasy.

The first time I saw it was back in 2002 during the Bush coup in Venezuela. I was posting on a board filled with Bush supporters, and if anyone even said one positive thing about Venezuela or Chavez, they immediately launched into the 'worship' thing.

That was the first time actually that I had ever noticed so many people using the same words, the same phrases. It was before I knew that people actually got paid to disseminate 'talking points', something I never heard of at the time. I remember asking them why they did that, if they were part of some school or something. Since then I have read a lot about how they spread propaganda around. They don't have to pay more than a few people to start the ball rolling. Funny to see it again here on DU.

How do you feel about America's own obsessive deification of many of our Presidents? The worship of Reagan is remarkable, eg, and you risk being called unpatriotic if you even whisper any criticism of him at all, no matter how correct it may be.

Thanks for your comment. It always interests me when I see the Left being attacked and demonized, well attempts to do so I should say, with old phrases and words such as the ones you used.

Democrats understand the difference between correcting false information and worship I would have thought. Especially when there is good chance that the false information might lead to getting support for yet another disastrous adventure by our country into yet another oil producing country.