Allied Parties Give Backing to Venezuela's Maduro

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102. That's why I disagree with you.

1 - Religion is based in faith, approval for Chávez and PSUV is based in concrete, visible changes. Say whatever you want, but not that voting for people who are improving your living standards is not being rational. It makes no sense.

2 - About the "comic-book view"... have you taken a time to consider the possibility that you are projecting a black-and-white view of "chavismo" yourself? And, when people say, even in a non inflammatory way, that Chávez voters (the majority of Venezuelan voters, the majority of Venezuelan people) must be uneducated, irrational, members of cult or something as bigoted to justify their choice, aren't they using de-humanization?

3 - You know, if evil rich fascists were only characters of DUer's "comic-book views", I could understand your point about seeing the world in black-and-white. But they are not. They are quite real. They've plagued this continent with mass killing, mass torture, coups, juntas, censorship. They've turned this place the most unequal region of the planet. Being aware of this and expressing disagreement of such a corrupted system and supporting change is what's expected from progressives and this, of course, does not mean they can't see the whole figure.

4 - Judi would be ok in Caracas, as I was ok in Caracas.