I'mma cut a bitch.

[tea_and_ink]

FUCKING FUUUUUUCK!!!!!!

I really feel like punching something. What the hell is wrong with the world? Can't they see this man is not gonna stop UNTIL THERE IS NOTHING LEFT? until there are no resources left for him to burn through on his thirst for power? Are they so blind they cannot see how personalism-driven his entire system of politics is? He doesn't want what's best for the country, HE WANTS NEVER-ENDING ADORATION!

I am so angry and disappointed right now. Can't stop crying. Tough, tough year ahead of us, and this is NOT a good omen.

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[maboheme.livejournal.com]

Actually I'm curious to hear more about your thoughts on him. Do tell.

[penandnotebook]

So, I've turning this over in my head the entire day because I wanted to give you a coherent enough answer, something solid. And then I realized, impossible task, I'm too emotionally involved at the moment, and it feels pretty raw still, not even 24 hours after the fact.

When I was younger I couldn't really understand why would anybody want to make a president out of a man who'd staged a semi-successful coup, who'd been in prison and only got out because he was pardoned, his sentence wasn't even fully served. After he won I got a taste of the reason, social dissatisfaction. The idea that those who were not living in the poorest of conditions were not real citizens of the country, and that those who were indeed in emergency situation had no chance of ever crawling out of it. Chavez came on promoting this ideal of egalitarianism and I admit, for a little while I was sold, but his equality was not such in terms of resources and opportunities as much as it was some twisted Robin Hood crusade, steal from the rich and make the poor believe you're giving to them.

Realistically, his government has done nothing to advance the country, quite the opposite, it has taken it back to more primitive stages, only difference is that back then, there were no computers. Infrastructure programs, education, public health, all of those things he advertises to have achieved are not really his accomplishments, in the best of cases, they've been renamed and possibly re-painted to sport the revolution's red. In terms of education he's implemented this "Missions" where he supposedly gives the chance to people who otherwise wouldn't have had it to become professionals, to finish elementary/middle education, but can you honestly tell me it is possible to finish twelve years worth of schooling in under 26 months? Can you become a physician in two years? Can you become a lawyer and not know jack about Roman Laws? He seems to think it is, you can, and so the people benefiting from this think so as well.

What bothers me so much about this man is how soul-less he comes across. It is possible that at some point he had legitimately good intentions that were later on corrupted by too much power, it is entirely too possible that he's been this self-complacent the whole time, and only hiked himself up to these heights in the belief that he deserves it. He's bleeding the country's resources to fund his eccentricities, he's using taxpayers money to campaign for himself and his adoring followers, he's soiling the history of the nation with interpretations that, to the best style of 1984, conveniently change to adapt themselves to whatever the moment calls for.

... it continues...

[penandnotebook]

Part of the reason why I became so close with my best friend was because he, like me, was an alien at a very young age, and children can be cruel. In time we came to be a part of the social make up of our school and further, the community; Venezuela is a bowl of mixed ethnicities, we were not the only transplant family in the tiny little town where we ended up. We were common occurrence.

Imagine how painful it is for me to go back to that place I consider a home, and face rejection and racism I never experienced before, see how low it has fallen, how streets and schools are vandalized, how people get mugged at all hours on very public places, how kidnapping young children as become a cock fight between local gangs. To fear for my life when walking down a street two blocks away from my house, and not even entirely because I'm American, but also because I got to go to school and have private social security. I'm supportive of the Imperialism they so loathe simply because my parents worked hard to get us these commodities. I'm not saying such situations aren't lived by other people in other parts of the world, I'm not even saying I haven't been there before, all I'm saying is that it was always elsewhere, never half a yard away from where I played ball with my brother. And they call this progress.

Chavez's revolution deepens the social grid he claims to fight against, classes separation is starker now that middle class has been wiped out almost entirely. Now everybody is equal because everybody is poor.

It makes me sick to think that he keeps getting supported because he speaks to the very worst of a society. He seems to bring out the worst in people, and I have seen this personally, it boggles me that this man is considered a good leader, someone fit to rule a country. And he wants to prolong it.

I guess it makes me so mad and sad because it makes me see this harsh reality of people not thinking ahead, willing to buy into whatever senseless lie they're fed as long as some sort of material retribution comes along the lie. Many people actually attended rallies and marches because they were promised TVs and washing machines, because they were promised revenge on the upper classes that "held them slaves for so long".

I know all the influence the mass has on the individual, but it still floors me to see this level of hate-based denial. The Commander gives you the pleasure of seeing your boss moving in down the block in your increasingly dangerous neighborhood, your house is still falling little by little, but so is your old boss', this is vindication. This is government. This is Democracy.

Clearly I'm really embittered, and I have no idea what your opinion on the man is, but this is mine, not sure it even makes sense. Like I said, it's all very emotionally charged to me at the moment, in fact I don't think it will ever stop being a sore spot. Um, did I make my point? (or sense?)