Posted on 06/19/2018 4:55:25 AM PDT by simpson96
Sunday's election of a hard-core conservative in Colombia has left the media elites and their pundits befuddled.
Some are calling Ivan Duque, the 41-year-old new conservative president-elect a 'populist' as if to suggest that both President Trump and the late unlamented Venezuelan strongman, Hugo Chavez, are all dreadful peas in the same pod. Others are speculating that Colombia elected another Emmanuel Macron, as if France's youthful, namby-pamby president amounted to a comparable sea change that this election represents. We heard of the new president summed up as 'pro-business' by the Wall Street Journal, as if that was all he meant to voters, and more pointedly still, summed up as 'right-wing' by Agence France-Presse and National Public Radio, both of which are clearly displeased. He's also been accused of being a 'puppet' of former President Alvaro Uribe, the country's Reagan-like leader from 2002-2010, who put terrorists on the run and changed Colombia's reputation from night-haunted hellhole to success story, even a vacation paradise. The press dutifully spread the puppet stuff far and wide.
The best story I saw, however, comes from a local, on-the-ground source. Here's Colombia Report's headline:
Iconic Medellin slum votes Duque to avoid ‘another Venezuela’
Now the clarity comes. Poor people voted for a genuine conservative out of terror of becoming another Venezuela, because they know what it is up close. And yes, that's the much-vaunted poor that for years we have been hearing are so poor they can only vote for candidates who offer to shovel the most pork. They didn't. And it wasn't even close. Duque won against his opponent, socialist ex-guerrilla and former Hugo Chavez admirer, Gustavo Petro, by a margin of about 54-42, according to the New York Times.
Yet that didn't merit any headlines from larger news sources?
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Yet that didn't merit any headlines from socialist news sources?
To report, or not to report. It's how they roll, control and bring about their desired change. Witness current everyday propaganda in the U.S.A.
Are the lights really coming on in Columbia? Hopefully a harbinger for all of South America...
Well now that over 2 million Venezuelans have poured into Colombia over the past couple of years, I’d expect Colombia to reverse course and continue the dive into insanity where they came from.
These idiots just don’t get it. I applaud Colombia, but they made a terrible mistake letting so many Venezuelans in.
For the left, this can be explained as converting socialists to "good socialists". If you are going to be a socialist, be a good one.
See? Venezuela does serve a good purpose. People can see it as a negative example of what happens to you when you embrace the lies and idiocy known as "communism."
It helps them avoid doing that to themselves.
If 25% of them are men you have the potential for an army of 500,000. Send them back to Venezuela with rifles. Good rifles.
The rifles would not even have to be that good. The Chavistas are use to unarmed crowds they can bully and would probably poop themselves and drop their rifles against any kind of real opposition.
His REAL name is Nicholas Manure-o.
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