07-02-2018, 07:46 PM
(07-02-2018, 03:39 PM)David Horn Wrote: > Really? Stalin and Mao are hardly exemplars of the left.
I've known leftists my whole life, and I know how you guys operate.
In the 50s and 60s, your leftist forebears adored Stalin and were
totally in love with Mao. Think of the Senate McCarthy hearings. And
in the 60s, they were all walking around carrying a book of Mao's
Thoughts in the back pockets.
Then when people like me are proved right, and people like you are
proved wrong, that's when you say -- "Stalin and Mao are hardly
exemplars of the left." Well yes they are, or they were, until
you changed your mind for convenience.
The same is true of Chavez. All the leftist idiots were in love with
Chavez when he was destroying Venezuela, and people like me were
saying that he was a disaster. Now it turns out that I was right and
people like you were disastrously wrong, and all these loony left
idiot celebrities and politicians no longer want to talk about
Venezuela. I've seen this many times in my life, so I consider your
claim that "they are hardly examplars of the left" to be completely
full of crap.
(07-02-2018, 03:39 PM)David Horn Wrote: > I can point to nations that have political systems more or less to
> my liking: the social democracies of Western Europe that Trump is
> working overtime to destroy.
Lol!! What are we talking about here? France? Spain? Italy? Germany?
What social democracies do you love that the mean old demagogue Trump
is trying to destroy? Lol!