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In reply to the discussion: Chavez foe seen victim of anti-Semitism in Venezuela [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)...When it's historically been Chavez getting shot at.
So tell me. From what do you draw the "unrestrained power" thing from? Do you understand the difference between "high popularity" and "unrestrained power"?
Here, let me give you an example of "unrestrained power." Kim Jong-il. Here's a dude who could compel the starving children of his impoverished nation to engage in an extremely expensive series of "games," claimed to be modeled on the Olympics, but actually a heavily choreographed (they practice for an entire year. Every year) worship session of Kim Jong-il. According to the government of the state of the Democratic people's Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-il, like his father Kim Il-Sung before him, was able to control the weather, make fully-grown trees appear overnight, and was the best-loved and most humanitarian leader in the world. Especially after he personally shot down not one, not two, but three US military aircraft, thus freeing the world from imperialist tyranny, don'cha know. Even after he died, he was able to compel people - and animals! - into "spontaneous" bouts of wracking grief - and the people who were less-affected by this wonderous power magically disappeared.
Hugo Chavez? Hugo Chevez has won several elections, and might win another. He also refused to re-license a television station after the owners of that station advocated his murder and joined part of a coup attempt against the government of Venezuela. He also gets to call his opposition a "pig" without there being a lot of complaint from Venezuelans. Ooooh. Ahhhh.
But both of them have funny-looking heads, so I can see how you have difficulty telling them apart.
Can you explain to me, also, how someone who gloats over another person having cancer, can ever criticize the "class" of anyone else?