08-12-2018, 05:18 AM
I did not realize that Maduro was even worse than Chavez. I had believed that Maduro was simply maintaining the same cranky socialism that Chavez supported. Short of going fully the route of Fidel Castro, what could be worse?
I have frequently compared Trump to Chavez for demagoguery and for contempt for nearly half the American population for holding ideas contrary to his. Both the late Hugo Chavez and the very-much-alive Donald Trump have been treating opposition as scapegoats. I expect Donald Trump to get similar consequences to those of Hugo Chavez due to cronyism and his assault on media that hold him in contempt. I see Donald Trump as similarly authoritarian, and even if he is as anti-proletarian as most Republicans, he is willing to use Big Government to support his backers and cronies. Donald Trump is a warning about socialistic Big Government -- everyone is for it as long as it gives the goodies, but when socialistic Big Government becomes the enemy it is a monstrosity.
Maduro may not quite be as bad as Castro. But should Donald Trump have a successor who chooses to carry out the Trump revolution -- and Trump is a revolutionary in the sense that Hugo Chavez is -- then the successor could be far worse than Donald Trump. Christian and Corporatist?
Donald Trump is neither a conservative or a libertarian. He is a right-wing socialist. Heck, Obama at the least sold off the government share in 'receivership socialism'.
I have frequently compared Trump to Chavez for demagoguery and for contempt for nearly half the American population for holding ideas contrary to his. Both the late Hugo Chavez and the very-much-alive Donald Trump have been treating opposition as scapegoats. I expect Donald Trump to get similar consequences to those of Hugo Chavez due to cronyism and his assault on media that hold him in contempt. I see Donald Trump as similarly authoritarian, and even if he is as anti-proletarian as most Republicans, he is willing to use Big Government to support his backers and cronies. Donald Trump is a warning about socialistic Big Government -- everyone is for it as long as it gives the goodies, but when socialistic Big Government becomes the enemy it is a monstrosity.
Maduro may not quite be as bad as Castro. But should Donald Trump have a successor who chooses to carry out the Trump revolution -- and Trump is a revolutionary in the sense that Hugo Chavez is -- then the successor could be far worse than Donald Trump. Christian and Corporatist?
Donald Trump is neither a conservative or a libertarian. He is a right-wing socialist. Heck, Obama at the least sold off the government share in 'receivership socialism'.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
