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Venezuela’s democratic façade has completely crumbled (Hugo Chavez's Long Con)
Washington Post ^ | 7/1/16 | Moisés Naim and Francisco Toro

Posted on 07/10/2016 6:14:45 AM PDT by doghorse

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To: Maceman
Funny how the article never cites socialism as the cause of Venezuela’s problems.

That would be some bias or ignorance on the part of the author.
I think we all know the "cause" of their problems: unmitigated greed.
A few wealthy families own MOST of the third world sewers' lands, money, militaries and governments.

The seven deadly sins: pride/arrogance, greed, anger, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. THEY provide the answers...that and a lot of work from Satan and his minions.

21 posted on 07/10/2016 6:46:13 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: doghorse

They just didn’t do it right.

(Standard leftist boiler plate)


22 posted on 07/10/2016 6:49:52 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: headstamp 2

Obama has conned them and us for eight years

it is not hard if you want to believe what he says and he does the opposite


23 posted on 07/10/2016 6:55:17 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: doghorse

Socialism Fail! Who coulda seen this coming? Certainly no one at WaPo.


24 posted on 07/10/2016 6:59:08 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
"......they fall for every communist, anti-American line ever uttered. They are waiting around to be conned by a tyrant spouting leftist garbage."

Some things never change:


25 posted on 07/10/2016 7:05:27 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: doghorse
... the time has come to ask some hard questions about how this regime — so obviously thuggish in hindsight — could have conned so many international observers for so long.

Give me a break. This is easily answered with a single image and a Caption that reads: "Our Hero" that summarizes perfectly for me the mindset of all liberals and certainly the referred to "international observers". These people foolishly believe in the nonsense written by this Economic Idiot.


26 posted on 07/10/2016 7:17:57 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Still a Cruz Fan but voting for Trump)
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To: doghorse

This is the washington post? Great Scott! There’s hope yet. On a side note, the gun club down the street is ultrabusy this morning.


27 posted on 07/10/2016 7:50:01 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: PLMerite

Wasn’t Stalin photoshopped into that heir-apparent pose with the dying Lenin?


28 posted on 07/10/2016 7:50:14 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: doghorse

What to know about communism:

1) communism is a pack of lies.

2) communists are liars.

You can just as well substitute socialism or progressivism.


29 posted on 07/10/2016 7:54:25 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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“Wasn’t Stalin photoshopped into that heir-apparent pose with the dying Lenin?”

I don’t think so. Lenin wasn’t able to say much of anything so Stalin just kind of photobombed himself into it. Photo retouching back then was mostly limited to airbrushing “nonpersons” out of photos, not seamlessly inserting people into them. Not that I’m an expert or anything.


30 posted on 07/10/2016 8:17:39 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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I'm not talking about the fools in his own country. I'm talking about the same people the article is: the so-called intellectual elite who for some unfathomable reason believed that THIS time, socialism was going to work.

They didn't learn then, and they still won't learn. If they had, Bernie Sanders couldn't get elected treasurer of the neighborhood beautification project, let alone be a serious candidate for the presidency.

31 posted on 07/10/2016 8:19:40 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack

The “working class” wasn’t conned, at least not for long. That’s where the thugs come in. The “intellectuals” still seem to be buying the con.


32 posted on 07/10/2016 8:19:57 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: PLMerite

We do know that Trotsky was Lenin’s chosen successor and that Lenin regarded Stalin as dangerous. True enough.

In some doctored photos/films a nonperson was blotted out by inserting shadowy figures into the foreground.

“Who controls the past controls the future.”


33 posted on 07/10/2016 8:46:59 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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freedomwinsout, Maduro won’t go after Chavez’s daughter. He is too busy accumulating his own billions. Can’t those Hollywood types chip in? Leftist leaders live like kings because they deserve it because they are so compassionate. They love the “little people” and want them to share in the wealth while it lasts. In the words of that great economics intellect, Celine Dion: “Let them touch those things for once.”


34 posted on 07/10/2016 9:19:37 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: freedomwinsout

Does jimmy carter get a cut for his support in “certifying” the “elections?”


35 posted on 07/10/2016 10:02:56 AM PDT by DPMD (o)
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To: doghorse

When socialists go out of favor within a socialist country, they become un-persons. When socialist leaders destroy a socialist country, they become “not the right leaders,” because socialism works, if they have the right leaders.


36 posted on 07/10/2016 10:09:43 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Nice to see that even this tepid an article runs in the Post.

Would be great if they would have included Jimmy Carter’s involvement in election observations since that is a main topic of the article.


37 posted on 07/10/2016 10:16:05 AM PDT by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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