5 myths about the Venezuela crisis

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23. Capitalist fascists hate democratic socialists. Complete and total HATE.

The two ideologies, capitalist-fascism/democratic-socialism, are opposites.

This hatred is aroused esp. when democratic socialism wins elections, as in Venezuela.

So, naturally, capitalist fascists suggest that the democratic gov't that they hate is "a dictatorship", and, when not pushing that blatantly false message, they do everything in their power to push a message that the electoral victories of democratic socialism aren't significant.

The only significant elections recognized by capitalist-fascists are those that elect a neo-con over a neo-lib, or vice-versa, in a tweedledum/tweedledee electoral farce. Capitalist-fascists are all too willing to deny political rights to the socialist left. HUAC isn't all that long ago, and those who designed HUAC went on to even more effective works - many of those works being in Latin America.

Capitalist fascists are all too willing to empower a right-wing coup overthrowing a democratic socialist gov't. This has been proven over and over in Latin America, and not just in Latin America. But fascists are never willing to claim actual responsibility. Their denial of history is astounding -- and in the midst of their denial of history, of responsibility, they will spew accusations that democratic socialists are lying.

Even in this forum there are some who are now denying that there was an aborted 2002 coup against the democratically elected gov't of Hugo Chavez -- they say that documentaries like 'The Revolution won't be Televised' are false, made up shit, and they promote a tidier opposition friendly account (the opposition, in this case, being that of the fascist would-be coup plotters). They deny any news or analysis of Venezuela that isn't brought to the world by big money MSM interests - saying that such news and analysis is communist propaganda.

Democratic socialists work toward ideals like single payer health and education systems, systems which *block* private insurance companies, for example, from participation. Democratic socialists work toward single payer medicare and pharmaceutical care, both of which regulate what would otherwise be the most despicable profiteering on the back of desperation. Both of which, when combined, would put impetus behind the creation of community health care clinics, behind prevention, behind the promotion of generic alternatives to costly drugs, etc. All of which would give even the least advantaged, in however numbers, a more equal opportunity to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in a modern world.

Democratic socialists work toward the ideal of community/state ownership (and regulation) of natural resources. The fascist right requires, as a sine quo non of their definition of "reality", of their "reality based world", 100% private ownership of all natural resources, as well as all means of production. Such a "reality", to them, is a natural state (and they have natural gods, as well - like an "invisible hand&quot , and thus they define the object of social democracy out of existence. When in power they do everything that they can to make their fascist system permanent - by systematically stripping the gov't of all power to work toward a common good, in favor of instituting new powers that give the moneyed elite an unimpeded, unregulated hand.