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Grassroots it is always a pleasure.
Remember someone else's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. And someone's propagandist is another's patriotic and freedom loving citizen. Asi es la cosa Grassroots.
Who's perspectives are the ones that seem the most truth filled to you? Also there is a level of science in social science. But human beings are not 100% rational beings. As such predicting their social behavior with 100% accuracy is not very likely. But, there are some things that are self evident.
How are you Grassroots? What do you think about modern socialism? I would love to hear your ideas...and opinions too you know.
Tainari88 wrote:How was it before Chavez? The poor were sick and tired of their kids not getting ANY education. No school. NO hospitals, no roads, no electricity and no attention from the authorities. And so if a Chavez guy comes along and says, "I will represent the poor and the common people because these bastards in the upper echelons of Venezuelan society haven't done anything for you lately." They will listen.
But, Latin America is going LEFT in a big way. With Lula in Brazil. Evo Morales, Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Chavez in Venezuela, and others....there is a big damn wave of LEFTIES going on in South America and the Gringos are on the defensive.
If people are worse off than before Chavez they would not be supporting Chavez. But they do? Why?
It is funny that you mentioned Bachellet in Chile where individual liberty and the free markets are the main policies of the Bachellet's "socialist" government, and now the popular candidate for the chilean presidential elections is a liberal free market advocate.
There is no "left wave" in Latin American
Wraith wrote:It is funny that you mentioned Bachellet in Chile where individual liberty and the free markets are the main policies of the Bachellet's "socialist" government
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