Supporters rally in show of support for Hugo Chavez

[Peace Patriot]

17. "Blackouts, inflation and crime, oh my!"

The three rightwing "talking points" promulgated by the corporate press and no doubt originally written by the USAID in their "tutoring" sessions of Venezuela's rightwing opposition.

Really, you are so transparent. You have nothing original to say, and, exactly like the corporate press, you completely ignore all the reasons that the majority in Venezuela have voted for the Chavez government, time and again, by big margins, and just threw most of the rightwing governors out as well.

Most Venezuelans obviously don't credit your "talking points" and consider other things more important, when weighed in the balance. In fact, they KNOW that the Chavez government solves problems, because they have solved so many thus far--including tackling endemic poverty and cutting it in half, providing health care and education through college to all, providing health care to all, accumulating cash reserves that saw them through the Bushwhack Crash with NO CUTS TO SOCIAL PROGRAMS, renegotiating the oil contracts to make them much fairer to Venezuela, presiding over sizzling economic growth during the 2003-to 2008 period (10%!)--even while your cohorts were trying to crash the economy with an oil bosses' lockout--and climbing back into 5% economic growth now, while the U.S. and European governments stagger around like drunks and can only think of "austerity" for the poor as a solution, while the rich get richer!

These are just some of the reasons why the Chavez government was re-elected in 2012. Your big three "talking points" failed to convince them again. You lost the election. Then you lost the by-elections. So why are you peddling these "talking points" HERE? Go back to Venezuela and peddle them there, and so how far you get.

You say you are a "center-leftist." I don't believe you--not with you listing the three rightwing "talking points" as your argument against the ELECTED government of Venezuela--and not with you ignoring all the reasons that Venezuelans voted for this government. Your viewpoint is as distorted as the corporate press. It is corporate propaganda. And it is as unreal and "Mad Tea Party-ish" as Venezuela's rightwing opposition, which failed to convince Venezuelans that they were "center-leftist"--the "Big Lie" of the Capriles campaign--and that they could, or even intended to, solve problems.

The Chavez government has already cut inflation by half; they also immediately addressed and solved the drought/hydro-electric power problem (that was causing blackouts) and they are working on the crime problem. This is what Venezuelans expect of them, and why they vote for them. They solve problems! And Venezuelan voters also, quite reasonably, concluded that the MUD (rightwing) coalition, far from solving any problems, was intent on de-constructing the "New Deal" that the Chavez government has implemented for them--ending poverty, sharing the wealth, economic growth, high employment, labor rights, social and civic equality, equal opportunity, fair taxation, access to media, public participation, clean elections and more.

The MUD coalition was full of vague promises with Capriles giving them a "center-left" glitz, but the MUD's real platform got revealed during the campaign, and it was nothing less than a return to "neo-liberalism"--to the old unfairness and brutality and to Wall Street's dictates.

They rejected your talking points. And they saw through the "center-left" glitz to the reality underneath. Smart, well-informed voters (unlike our own), voting in an honest, transparent election system (unlike our own). I don't see anything you've written that doesn't put in the MUD camp that was rejected by the voters.

Tell me how you love seeing everyone in the country getting health care, many for the first time in their lives, free of cost to the poor--and then acknowledge that that was an accomplishment of the Chavez government. Tell me that you support universal free education and a doubling of college enrollment--and then admit that the Chavez government has done that. Tell me it's better for Venezuela to get 50% of the oil revenues and use that money for social programs, than for Exxon Mobil and brethren to get 90% of the revenues and stuff their pockets with it, while Venezuelan children suffer poor nutrition and don't have a pair of shoes to go to school with. Tell me what you SUPPORT and then I will tell you whether or not I consider you a "center-leftist."

And don't tell me any more stale, failed, politically contrived, rightwing "talking points"! It's bullshit anyway. The MUD had no intention to solve any problems. Their intention was to UNDO the solutions to the problems that HAD BEEN solved, by the rich seizing control of the oil revenues once again and cornering the country's wealth, once again.