The hypocrisy of the Democrats on Maduro

John Marty has written an intelligent letter, and, as a life-long Democrat, I agree with almost all of the points that he makes.

It has been over 2 months since I last participated in the SMDJ online comments section. At that time I wrote the following:

“the pro-Trump partisans in this newspaper spend significant amounts of time rewriting these almost identical harangues day after day after day after day. Don’t even give them the time of day. It never fails to amuse me that they seem to think their logic is “ironclad” when the counterpoints are blatantly obvious to anyone who is not blinded by ideology.”

This parallels Mr. Marty’s theme above, but comes from the other side.

I see that the only two comments prior to mine here are from two of the “usual suspects” on the Trump side. Their persistent harangues succeed admirably in driving away public participation from this forum. Terrence Y in particular continues his obsessive daily practice of seeking to place his name on almost every item in the SMDJ’s “Recent Comments…” list.

A long time ago, our public education system tried to teach students that there is more than one side to each question. While I agree with the bulk of Mr. Marty’s letter above, this is NOT to say that there are ZERO counterpoints to “our, yes our, great President Trump’s” actions in Venezuela. My challenge to Mr. Marty is simple:

Can he write another Letter to the Editor listing what those downsides are? Or is each side in this debate so biased and blind that they can only defend their own side? We already know what the answer is for the usual denizens of this swamp, and there is little point engaging in a conversation with zero give and take.

This is the crux of the problem confronting our political system - we have let extremists on both ends of the spectrum take it over.

As I watch the myriad media reports across the world, including our provincial California, it is truly striking that virtually all Venezuelans who live in freedom countries support the removal. It sems the only ones protesting are those who have little or anything to do or may not even know where that country is. The same phony gang that marches in No King Day and in favor Hamas. Where are they now supporting the Iranians who are desperately trying to to dump their filthy Theocrats? These protesters are either mentally challenged or would have been a perfect quarry for Maduro.

Thanks for your letter, Mr. Marty, highlighting just a few instances (of many) of hypocrisy so prevalent with Democrats. But remember, these Democrats put the welfare of criminals and terrorists (and now a murderous drug kingpin in Maduro) over the American people. I’d say Democrats afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome have become blinded to common sense. I wonder if Amazon has a Democrat outrage of the day calender for sale. It would be a single page applicable to every day of the year which says, “Orange man bad.” All for $9.99. I'd bet it sells more copies than Kamala Harris's word salad extraordinaire known as "107 Days."