Editor,
If you are still undecided about who to vote for president in November, please take a look at what happened to Venezuela this week.
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Updated: November 12, 2025 @ 6:33 am
Editor,
If you are still undecided about who to vote for president in November, please take a look at what happened to Venezuela this week.
Edmundo Gonzales, the overwhelming winner of the country’s July presidential election, fled to exile in Spain rather than being arrested by past and still President Nicholas Maduro.
Maduro is the model of authoritarianism. His Project 2025 began in 2018, when he illegally replaced the ailing authoritarian Hugo Chavez, who had already damaged the economy and lives of the Venezuelan people.
The dictionary uses words like king, ruler, emperor, dictator and czar, to define authoritarian.
Not much about people, what they need and care about or personal freedom.
Please pick democracy instead.
Dan Dippery
Menlo Park
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(4) comments
Mr. Dippery, I second your recommendation to vote for our great President Trump. A vote for Trump is not only a vote to save democracy and Make America Great Again but will also prevent Marxist Harris from repeating what happened to Venezuela this week.
Unfortunately, too many are simply too intellectually challenged to get the obvious, or even so cultivated by Trumpism, that something as clearly obvious as what you express, goes over their heads. They just don’t get it, which may explain why they follow Trump as blindly as they do, no matter what he says or does, and no matter how badly he is being exposed by his opponent Kamala Harris, - obviously so much brighter, informed, and not the least: honest! But, are they honest enough to admit it, if they even understood it? I don’t think so.
Jorg - we may be intellectually challenged but most us are not going to vote for an ambulance chaser. That is what Kamala Harris is all about. You are the one fooled by her ability to parse words and expressions. Clearly, you have never dealt with attorneys, aka as hired guns. She is beyond duplicitous.
A blindly faithful Trumpian has spoken!
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