When I see posts by people who suggest Bush is a war criminal and should be imprisoned, and comments like confiscate all the companies assets that are involved in Iraq I have to ask the American left - what is the difference between your positions and Hugo Chavez's regime?
Does this mean you will imprison those who politically disagree with you? Does it mean you plan to nationalize corporations you don't like? Is that the agenda of the American left?
2007-11-18 15:45:00 · 12 answers · asked by netjr 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
There is very little difference, as Hugo is a leftist. The biggest difference is that Hugo the first IS in power, the American left is not.
Saying this, if Hugo or Fidel, or Mao where in power in America (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) the first to be sent to the camps for "re-education" would be the leftist intellectuals, mostly from Hollywood and academia, because these are the troublemakers that would object to Hugo's arranging the Venezuelan constitution so he can be proclaimed President for life. With the protesters being jailed in Caracas as we speak.
The leftie above me has been sipping the lib coolaid for far too long.
2007-11-18 15:55:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
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2016-09-29 12:09:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So if you don't support Bush you are a member of Hugo Chavez's regime? That's a nice straw man argument. The bad thing about a straw man argument is that it's completely unrealistic and has no correlation with real life. Most issues are complex and when you boil them down to a one-issue divisive argument they lose all credibility.
By the way, doesn't the right want to imprison those they disagree with? People who violate the law are disagreed with by the collective desires of society. It's called democracy and the rule of law. As far as nationalizing corporations the left doesn't agree with...... this is the first suggestion I've heard of that. Does the right want this to happen? Is that why you're bringing it up?
2007-11-18 15:51:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
Logical fallacy detected: guilt by association.
Just because the loud-mouth socialist in Venezuala is speaking some of the same TRUTHS that the left wing of America is stating, does not mean they share all the same beliefs.
By the way, your idiot-in-chief Cheney thinks Hugo is the leader of PERU. These GOP idiots can't even get their countries and leaders straight!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7076907.stm
Cheney makes geographical gaffe
US Vice-President Dick Cheney has made a geographical gaffe during a foreign policy speech, appearing to confuse Peru with Venezuela.
While criticising Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Mr Cheney said "the people of Peru deserve better".
Speaking in Dallas, Texas, he said he did not believe Mr Chavez represented the future of Latin America.
Mr Chavez and his socialist ideology have long concerned US President George W Bush's administration.
Mr Cheney said of the Venezuelan leader: "He spends a great deal of his time worrying about us and criticising the United States."
2007-11-18 15:55:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
The so-called "American left" is practically non-existant. What the right wing refers to as the "left" is the majority of Americans who have a moderate-to-liberal perspective.. Ad aren't guilty of advocating any of the things you suggest.
The Chavez government is a dictatorship. It happens to use a "left-wing (Marxist) rhetoric to jsutify itself, but that is, in essence, irrelevant. It is a totalitarian regime. It has nothing in common with liberalism (try looking up the definition of "liberalism" instead of listening to the right-wing's lies, OK?).
Chavez has much more in common with the American right wing (NOT legitimate conservatives): both wish to suspend the rule of law. The right in this country is openly opposed to the Constitutional protection of individual liberties and rights, and their leader--Bush--regards himself as above the law.
Tyrants are tyrants--that is the essence of their nature. The particular rhetoric tey use to exxcuse their lust for power is immatieral.
2007-11-18 15:54:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
I ask you- "what is the difference between Bush's regime and that of Hugo Chavez"? And I will give you the answer- "Hugo Chavez's approval rating is double that of George Bush's".
2007-11-18 15:50:23 · answer #6 · answered by mangani_187 2 · 5⤊ 4⤋
The difference is, in a free America, we can say just about anything we want to, due to freedom of speech, knowing full well it will never happen. In Hugo's world, It MIGHT!!
Get it, Dude?
2007-11-18 15:48:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Naah no decent American cares about a foreign leader loved by his own people... its VERIZON ( and other US blood suckers) propaganda machine demonizing Chavez...
Americans are good at heart... big business have no decency guidelines beside windfall profits.
2007-11-18 15:59:57 · answer #8 · answered by WO LEE 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Old Hugo is a wannabe Fidel, and the US left are as bad as he is. Both are socialists that could be borderline communists unless held in check.
2007-11-18 15:56:46 · answer #9 · answered by commanderbuck383 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Hugo is much better looking than them
2007-11-18 15:56:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋