Good news indeed!
Venezuelans who voted for Chavez and pro-Chavez candidates did so because they loved their left-wing political program of truly nationalizing PDVSA, using oil revenues to improve the conditions of the poor, such as expanding education, offering health care, and implementing land reforms. That's the lesson US leftist need to learn here. The majority of working-class Americans will never get motivated by an empty pitch that they have to vote for Democrats because Democrats are not Republicans. US leftists need to get organized (through the Green Party or a new political party on the left), present a pro-working-class program (featuring an end to the Iraq War, universal health care, living wages for all, public works jobs for the unemployed, shorter work weeks, etc.) through social movements and electoral campaigns, win a third of the voting-age-population to it, and challenge progressive Democratic politicians like Barbara Lee to leave the Democratic Party and join us. -- Yoshie
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