11-15-2019, 10:11 PM
The luster is gone from "Bolivarian" socialism. Eleven years is far too much for any authoritarian system that pretends to stand for democracy while gutting it unless that system has an apparatus of state terror. .
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.