I try to respect all political ideals even though I disagree with many of them, but it’s incredible how people on the left on social media (maybe not all of them, but definitely the ones who make the most noise) have proven to be the least empathetic.
They don’t actually care about what people in Venezuela are going through; they only care that whoever did something, for better or worse, was the U.S. They’re waiting for it to turn into a war zone so they can say, “See? We were right,” without caring about the people at all.
They defend a dictator just because he claims to be left-wing, despite the fact that, in front of everyone, he stole an election, killed people before even being in government, and then continued doing so as president. They were citizens like you and me who simply didn’t agree with what was happening.
There are also records of all the torture carried out on Maduro’s orders and by his people, from rape to mutilation, and that doesn’t matter to them. What matters is that, publicly, he calls himself left-wing.
There are foreigners imprisoned just for being in Venezuela at the wrong time. It’s a xenophobic government that constantly mistreats women and has even jailed people simply for being homosexual. Everything they accuse the right of being is, in reality, exactly what that “left-wing” government they defend actually is—defended from their homes in democratic countries, where elections are not a reason to be afraid, unlike in Venezuela.