HR advocate: 4,500 people killed in Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro

[Peace Patriot]

22. Oh, for Pete's sake! You, too? I know you are a Capriles supporter but...

...really, you aren't going to win with these "talking points" so why do you keep it up, slandering the next president of Venezuela as if Maduro mentioning his predecessor and mentor Chavez kills people, as if Maduro approves of murder, as if he is a murderer himself?

That is not only wrong and a lie, it is stupid campaigning. It's why you've been losing time and again. Why don't you devote some energy to new ideas and programs for Venezuela, instead of tearing down the most successful poverty-reduction government in the world, with mean and petty comments like this? You're wasting your brain on garbage--on cheap sloganeering, on repetitive, monotonous, boring negative "talking points" that aren't getting you or your candidate anywhere.

Something else you could do: Examine why Capriles lost the last election and is going to lose this one. My sense of it is that he is not genuine--he is a front man for the most fascist element in Venezuelan society, and for transglobal corporations and their U.S. government servants--and Venezuelan voters sensed that falseness, and felt that it was confirmed when the far right platform of part of his coalition came too light.

Why should they vote for someone whose agenda is to deconstruct the "New Deal" that they've voted for, time and again, by big majorities, for over a decade--or whom they believe has that agenda?

That's my feeling about it--but what is yours? Your time would be better spent figuring this out--why Capriles lost despite the lavish support of the Corporate Media and its non-stop, 14 year campaign against Chavez, and why he is going to lose again, despite the continued support of the Corporate Media and their new campaign against Maduro. Why don't the voters trust Capriles? Should the opposition re-think its platform and its relationship with the Venezuelan majority (like Republicans are having to do here) and develop new leadership that the majority can trust not to rob the poor of their gains?

You keep losing because you are NOT thinking--you are not analyzing; you are not learning lessons; you are relying on the Corporate Media which failed, time and again, to oust Chavez, and I think you have also fallen prey to the Corporate Media lie that the Bolivarian Revolution was all about Chavez. It was not. It was and is about the people of Venezuela--the voters, the grass roots activists, the community organizers, the poor who have food on the table, a real roof over their heads and health care for the first time in their lives, the parents of children with no hope of ever going to college now being able to go to college, the passionate believers in fairness--the People, who rated their country FIFTH IN THE WORLD in the Gallup Well-being poll, which measures individuals' current sense of well-being and future prospects. 5th the world!

You need to think about these things and stop riffing on Corporate Media and rightwing "talking points." It is a useless exercise. It has repeatedly failed. And it paints an inaccurate, and in some ways slanderous and vicious, picture of Venezuela and its people. You got a solution for street crime? Tell us about it--and better yet tell Venezuelans about it. Where are your constructive ideas?