Do you support the overthrow of Maduro in Venezuela?

[MADem]

73. No it didn't. If Maduro resigned, as Nixon did, that would not be regarded as an

"overthrow." Further, the government would remain in the same political party's hands, Rangel would govern until elections could be held.

Your agenda was made obvious through the use of the scary quotation marks around the word "spontaneous." As I have said elsewhere, you do yourself a real disservice by making your contempt for the intelligence of the average Venezuelan so unintentionally obvious.

When there is no food in the stores, no toilet paper or dishwashing liquid to buy, no electricity because of infrastructure failures, public transportation becomes unreliable (or now, not working), and there are dozens of murders in that country EACH day, there's a problem. When the rate of inflation is fifty or sixty percent, that cuts into what little earnings one has--saving becomes impossible and just surviving becomes problematic. It's not the rich who feel the pain and fear that results from that kind of hyperinflationary economy--it's the poor. And this, my friend, is why the POOR are in the STREETS, protesting.

This is not rocket science--I'm astounded that you think it is. And your insinuations that there's something nefarious about people griping because, oh heavens, there's no food in the stores and we can't afford to buy any, anyway is indicative of your poor grasp of the situation.

Only an IDIOT would be complacent in that sort of environment, and you apparently want the Venezuelans to be complacent. What does that say about your actual "devotion" to the Venezuelans? Not much, in my estimation--you're more married to a perceived ideology, and you could give a shit about the day to day lives of the people living in that country, so long as the "narrative" you have in your head isn't challenged.

The people in the streets are challenging that narrative--the place is fucked up, and Maduro is incompetent.