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2019-08-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

60+ year old Leftist who left the fold confronts Chavistas in Berkeley

[CaracasChronicles] Given how the KPFA [radio] audience would be, mostly, older folks who had, like me, been active in the Central American solidarity movement some 40 years past, I decided to focus the first flyer ... The headline... "Solidarity with the Venezuelan Government‐Or with the Venezuelan People." I presumed that solidarity activists, long-steeped in Leninism... I pointed out ... one third of the murders in Venezuela, by the government's own account, was carried out by the FAES and how people were denied access to food and had limited access to health, education and other basic necessities....The Berkeley left, and the KPFA radio crowd, is an aging demographic sprinkled with a mix of University of California students... And so it's the greatest irony that these people clinging to outworn institutions sheltering the obsolete and dysfunctional faith of socialism in both its 20th and 21st-century varieties would think of themselves as "progressives."

Posted by lord garth 2019-08-19 10:02|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Well. It's a matter of what's being talked about and what's being said. The usual suspects wet themselves whenever someone like Katherine Hepburn, Jimmuah Cahtah or Steve Wozniak said anything about anything. If what is being said rubs anyone the wrong way, it's "there's no fool like an old fool" time. Funny how that works...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-19 17:36|| 2019-08-19 17:36|| Front Page Top

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