Venezuela's Maduro blasts 'devil' Obama

[Ash_F]

44. On the devil comment

Chávez spoke like that sometimes. Maduro is just trying the emulate that.

One thing to consider about both of them is that neither were career politicians. They didn't grow up coddled in prep-schools and go straight into law school like most US politicians. They came from poverty. Chávez's career prior to politics was a soldier. Maduro was a bus driver.


Unlike our politicians, they did not go through the years of formal and iterated training that has been established over two centuries in order to pick their words carefully. No one taught them to stay away from firey rhetoric to maintain broad appeal and temper outrage. No such infrastructure existed in Venezuela for the poor.


They can get away with that language in Venezuela because the country has been through so many struggles, and the people are hardened to such language. Words don't outrage them compared to what they have been through. Not as much they would to relatively pampered first world citizens. But international media will jump on any opportunity to highlight any controversial comment and blast it in headlines, because that turns heads. However, their democracy is under attack from the outside and they need the support of international citizens right now. So they must learn to stay away from that kind of language.


But you know what? Even though, in America, we don't hear comments like that too often, the real barbarity is displayed when our politicians enact policies that do real physical harm to our citizens.