When I was in college, I knew a few students who were Communists. These guys would hold sparsely attended rallies and pass out literature that focused on why the USA was bad and why the Soviet Union was good. That may sound simplistic, but really all of what they said boiled down to just that. Indeed, over the years, the left has had that constant focus even after the demise of the USSR. They just shortened their mantra from "USA Bad, USSR Good" to just "USA Bad". Some things have been incredibly idiotic. For example, I remember the nuclear freeze movement run by leftists in the 1980s. These people held marches calling for the USA to stop production of nuclear weapons and then to begin the process of destroying the ones we already had. The lefty marchers didn't bother to address the thousands of nukes that the Soviets held. They just wanted unilateral American disarmament. Supposedly, that would bring about world peace. After all, there is nothing like leaving America defenseless before a well armed enemy as a means to promote world peace.
I was reminded of this today when I read the latest comments from the far left Democrats in the House about the situation in Venezuela. Millions of Venezuelans are facing literal starvation and that situation has gotten worse due to a near total power failure across that country. So what are the lefties saying about Venezuela? Anti-Semitic bigot congressman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) announced that Americans should not listen to what President Trump or his point man on the issue, Elliot Abrams, have to say about events in Venezueal; according to Omar, they just lie about it. Omar wants to encourage conversation about Venezuela, but nothing more. Loony lefty Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) congratulated Omar for her great insight regarding Venezuela. She warned that President Trump was just trying to drag America into a war in South America to steal the oil reserves in Venezuela. The loony AOC cited no evidence, but that doesn't matter to her. After all, Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela says he is a socialist, so he is good and America is bad.
There are a series of other far left Democrats who are busy warning about the USA rather than looking at the immense suffering of the Venezuelan people who are starving and dying under socialism. To them, a few hundred dead in Venezuela each day is not that important when the future of a nominally socialist regime is at stake. No matter how corrupt, how vile, or how dangerous, they support a socialist government because they know that the socialist must be right. Oh, and they know that no matter what the USA does, it must be wrong.
It was pretty bad all those years ago when supposedly intelligent students followed the communist/Soviet line no matter what the actual facts were. It's much, much worse to think that we actually now have people in Congress who push misinformation and death for those suffering in Venezuela in service to the distorted reality of leftist thought. Hopefully, the display of all this insanity from the left will destroy their future with the American people. We have to rely on the inherent goodness of the average American.
I was reminded of this today when I read the latest comments from the far left Democrats in the House about the situation in Venezuela. Millions of Venezuelans are facing literal starvation and that situation has gotten worse due to a near total power failure across that country. So what are the lefties saying about Venezuela? Anti-Semitic bigot congressman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) announced that Americans should not listen to what President Trump or his point man on the issue, Elliot Abrams, have to say about events in Venezueal; according to Omar, they just lie about it. Omar wants to encourage conversation about Venezuela, but nothing more. Loony lefty Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) congratulated Omar for her great insight regarding Venezuela. She warned that President Trump was just trying to drag America into a war in South America to steal the oil reserves in Venezuela. The loony AOC cited no evidence, but that doesn't matter to her. After all, Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela says he is a socialist, so he is good and America is bad.
There are a series of other far left Democrats who are busy warning about the USA rather than looking at the immense suffering of the Venezuelan people who are starving and dying under socialism. To them, a few hundred dead in Venezuela each day is not that important when the future of a nominally socialist regime is at stake. No matter how corrupt, how vile, or how dangerous, they support a socialist government because they know that the socialist must be right. Oh, and they know that no matter what the USA does, it must be wrong.
It was pretty bad all those years ago when supposedly intelligent students followed the communist/Soviet line no matter what the actual facts were. It's much, much worse to think that we actually now have people in Congress who push misinformation and death for those suffering in Venezuela in service to the distorted reality of leftist thought. Hopefully, the display of all this insanity from the left will destroy their future with the American people. We have to rely on the inherent goodness of the average American.
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