The thing is, lots of Venezuelans disagree with you on that. I don’t doubt that on balance he made things worse, but I wasn’t the one starving under the last regime. There’s a reason he was elected, after all. It’s true that nationalizing industries didn’t solve Venezuela’s problems, but it’s equally true that the corrupt capitalism they practiced before didn’t solve them either. It’s a poor country with corrupt elites and a long tradition of despotism. The long-term misery of the place wasn’t caused by Socialism.
But EVERYONE is starving under this regime.
Their poverty rate is over 90% now.
He kicked the can down the road. Anyway there is a Venezuela thread.
What exactly is this topic supposed to be about now. The mainstream media, both sides, what about but only on the topics we’re all comfortable with? Is that the spiel? Because it’s the age of Trump, not just… Trump.
Lol, i thought this WAS the Venezuela thread.
Me too. Sorry!
Alas, if only Disqus allowed moderators to move posts from one thread to another.
Not exactly mainstream media.
An Arizona cop threatened to arrest a 12-year-old journalist. She wasn’t backing down.
What an awesome person. Following her on Twitter now!
That’s right. The proper place for the abortion debate is in the Venezuala thread.
:)345
So here we have a piece from CBS. Article starts off admirably enough by defining socialism and tracing it’s evolution to what much of Europe has today and how Democrats are moving closer to embracing it (to be sure it’s shallow but it’s main stream news so that’s expected.) But then the writer gets to the New Green Deal. She cites two sources - one “the top White House economic advisor” and a writer previously cited, a former socialist now calling himself a neoconservative and strongly critical of the broader, looser definition of socialism (essentially mixed economy or the more pejorative welfare state.)
Now I don’t know the economic impact of the GND and I wager no one does until it’s turned into legislation but this pieces just assumes the critics are correct and doesn’t even as an aside attempt to refute it. If you’re a low information voter, your conclusion can only be GND is bad.
It sounds tinfoily but what is the possible motivation for framing it like this other than for preserving the neoliberal status quo?
Well, let’s face it, even major media companies considered liberal are still owned by mostly very wealthy people. They like the prerogatives that their class affords them.
This is not an op-ed. “Careening off a liberal cliff.”
(I’m not a Sanders supporter here but this clearly illustrates the NYT “balance.”)
Related:
I want to staple a note to the forehead of every journalist that says KEEPING THE EARTH HABITABLE IS NOT A LEFT WING POLICY
All the red and green in that clip. So Christmasy!
Every time Trump sends a mafia memo to TV stations, a news outlet gets its jackboots.
Christ, that headline. I hope that tweet gets ratioed into another dimension.