Do you support the overthrow of Maduro in Venezuela?

[MADem]

58. You don't think much of the people of Venezuela, apparently.

Why would you think there would be a right wing "takeover" if Maduro resigns?

Answer this question, it requires a small amount of history knowledge--did the Democrats "take over" when Nixon resigned?


Why do you think that the Venezuelans can't handle a transfer of power upon the resignation of the nation's leader in an orderly fashion? Do you reallly think so little of them that you "assume" that the only way power can be transferred is at the point of a gun?

If anyone doesn't have faith in the Venezuelan people and their Bolivarian revolution, it surely isn't ME in this conversation.

As I've said more than once on this board, and you can look it up, I think that Cabello will be sitting in the Presidential palace before Capriles. You remember Diosdado Cabello, don't you? Army lieutenant when Chavez was El Coronel? Sat at the right hand of Hugo?

You've just -- I hope -- learned a little lesson about "assuming." And if anyone here is casting aspersions on Venezuelan "dignity" it's you. Your attitude is terribly condescending towards them--you think they're too stupid to want to protest on their own, you subscribe to childish conspiracy theories about foreign actors that plainly aren't operative, you deny that the situation in the country in terms of inflation, crime and scarcity of goods is dire, and you infantalize the people with your scolding about the right wing and how Venezuelans don't know their own minds and can't act to secure their own destiny.

Tsk, tsk.