I feel like there was a certain naïveté among American leftists about him
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @Maxmordon
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @Maxmordon
yeah if you say anything negative about him or Castro in certain leftist circles here they'll tear you up
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of course more commonly conservatives here will attack you if you say anything positive about him
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It's like saying your only options are between Mao and Chiang, it simplifies complex sociopolitical realities to extremes.
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Replying to @Maxmordon
right, or caricaturing American politics as pure good vs evil (although with Trump it's hard not to)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Plus, after WWII there has been a sense of righteousness defining US mentality. A sense that all battles are good vs. evil.
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right, like the OAS building. We have to believe the myth that we're the fountain freedom and modernity flow from
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