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First, however, I want y'all to ponder this: have y'all noticed how very quiet the leftists in America - okay, the Democrat Party - have been about what is happening in Venezuela? You have a government gunning down and wantonly imprisoning, and torturing, its own citizens. You have a dictator storing up riches while the people of that country go hungry, are without running water, and have spotty electricity. To think, this was once one of the most prosperous nations in Latin America.
You have really bad actors like Turkey, Iran, and Cuba aligning themselves with the former bus driver, Nicolas Maduro. And even the progressive socialist left's proclaimed specter, Russia, and Vladmir Putin, sided with Maduro, and the left says nothing.
Comment: West paints with a broad MSM-infused brush here, completely missing the fact that Venezuela was doing very well, thank you, until it began to chart its own course away from the US hegemony. Then it became a target of the neocons just as Iraq, Libya and Syria were targeted. The countries he decries as 'supporting a 'dictator' are upholding the idea of national sovereignty and the right of a country to determine its own policies and social organization.
Comment: West has given a cogent assessment of US Leftist politics. However, his remarks vis a vis Venezuela betray a shocking ignorance of the true nature of the US' long-running covert attempt to overthrow a government that refuses to hand over, carte blanche, its most valuable resource.