right, that policy and ideology become less important than the symbolic leader
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Maxmordon
Trump's beliefs change all the time but his fans don't care, they project their emotions onto him
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Same thing with Chávez,. Before being elected he denounced Castro and openly admired Pérez Jiménez, a US-backed dictator.
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I had a Venezuelan coworker when I worked in DC tourism, when I asked him about Chavez he just said "don't get me started"
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I'm well aware by the fact I will be talking about Chávez pretty much til the day I die. I don't mind, actually.
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I feel like there was a certain naïveté among American leftists about him
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Chávez did a lot of things that were needed for many but it was more to create his own myth that pushing forward others.
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yeah, no infrastructure remaining after he was gone
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my dad liked to talk about Sun Yat Sen (the liberator of China) and how his greatest flaw was not thinking past his own life
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Also, speaking of cult of personality, one is already built around Chávez: https://www.google.co.ve/search?q=ojos+de+chavez&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=643&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj-ypj1ouPOAhUC5iYKHYFJDMUQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=edificio+ojos+de+chavez …
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yeah if you say anything negative about him or Castro in certain leftist circles here they'll tear you up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Maxmordon
of course more commonly conservatives here will attack you if you say anything positive about him
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I really dislike that false dichotomy of either Pinochet or Castro in Latin America. We have had democratic leaders, dammit.
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