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> Even more cynical there are still people in the Mercosur that back Maduro even now. I can imagine left leaning people would align with a socialist government
by Brakenshire 9y ago
> Even more cynical there are still people in the Mercosur that back Maduro even now. I can imagine left leaning people would align with a socialist government initially but still after all this happened?
Not just Mercosur, the leader of the UK Labour party is a long term Chavez supporter, and still hasn't come out against all of this.
- wooter 9y agoThese days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now? - Bernie Sanders (on his site, https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-gaps-disparities-that-threaten-america https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-...)
- Brakenshire 9y agoYeah. Sanders and Corbyn are strange figureheads really. I've spoken to Labour politicians who think that Corbyn hasn't changed his mind since 1983. They all are still carrying all of this pointless and discredited Cold War era baggage. A friend of Corbyn's has praised North Korea and Stalinism, and Corbyn appointed him to a major position in his election campaign: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-defends-andrew-murray-ex-communist-after-drafted-in-as-election-adviser-secondment-unite_uk_5919d8a4e4b07d5f6ba4bf4a http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-defends-... They do the job of right-wing ideologues for them by conflating social democracy with communism and authoritarianism. They still have not learnt the lessons of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn about the nonsense of arbitrarily taking sides.