Don'y understand "boycotting" even a corrupt election. At least make the criminals work for their success. Not voting at all just ensures their loss.

Don’t=Don’y

If Clinton had become president this would be our future.

Socialism ... It Really Is Paradise

Venezuelan socialism is Paradise, come to think of it.
Money is of no use, you are expected
to forever sing praises of the administration,
and it leads to nothing better.

“Don’t understand “boycotting” even a corrupt election. At least make the criminals work for their success. Not voting at all just ensures their loss.”

What’s the point? The opposition knows the vote is rigged.

Fake voting. If Jimmy Carter was twenty years younger,he might be down there right now, verifying that this really was a fair and just election.

Not voting or voting against Maduro are both high risk. Either could get you a visit from government thugs or simply cut off from any food rations. Maduro will not be removed by the ballot box.

Once you’ve risen to that level of control, and pushed down the lives of those beneath, you have to stay in power.. or else.

Or, the Disco version:

“Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive...”

If you don't trust that your vote will be counted correctly, what's the point in voting?

If Jimmy Carter was twenty years younger,he might be down there right now, verifying that this really was a fair and just election.

There's no fool like an old fool, is there??

Speaking of old fools, if there was any justice the Sean Reans, Danny Glovers and Bernie Sanders of the world should have to be paid in Venezuelan "Bolivars"

If socialism is fit for the "peasants", it should be fit for it's "royalty?

(Yes, I'm a little soused today...Cheers!)

What I don’t get is how the Venezuelans don’t rise up and violently overthrow the Chavistas, particularly if 75% of them hate the bastids. You can figure that if things are as bad as we hear, then people are already dying in large numbers because of the Chavistas, so what more do they have to lose? There’s a lesson in there somewhere about what the people in this country will put up with before we start to push back, if we ever do.

If Clinton had become president this would be our future.

Very true. Read a poll that presented 40% of voters would like to have "socialism" here.

Stupid people who don't read the papers or think "socialism" hasn't been given a proper chance.

Did I mention "stupid people"?

Don'y understand "boycotting" even a corrupt election. At least make the criminals work for their success. Not voting at all just ensures their loss.

Yes, but getting 99% of the election vote when you have a 75% disapproval rating forever shows History itself that you are corrupt and illegitimate. Letting them present a win of 58% to 40% (no matter the actual vote counts) just helps them hide the truth from future generations.

One would think that with 75% of the people would overthrow their government but the ones who would be needed to do so left years ago and started their lives elsewhere.

A portion of the semi-intelligent are just starting to catch on that’s times aren’t going to get better but are still too stupid to organize against the government and just easier to leave.

The rest are too invested in the government status quo.

Makes me thankful for our revolution over two hundred years ago and the wisdom of our Founding Fathers to set up a government with a Constitution that lasted so long.

Truly a miracle.

Makes me thankful for our right to keep and bear arms against a tyrannical government.
(See my tagline)

Is the short guy on the right the same one who gets erased from the picture with Stalin walking by a river/canal?

What’s the point? The opposition knows the vote is rigged.

Then it's time to pick up your their guns and .... uh.....No Second Amendment....

(Shruggs shoulders)What’s the point? /sarc.

Because in totalitarian societies simply _not voting_ is often considered a very serious crime.

Americans have lived in a defacto vacuum as far as accurate history education for several decades. They have no reference generally, with which to process certain ideas or concepts themselves, so the only “opinion” they hold is what they have been told. They are ripe for totalitarianism, and it will be here soon enough. They don’t like freedom or liberty. Being told where to go, what to do, where to work, where to live, is comforting to them.

When “mandatory” voting is suggested they will be in favor of it, just like every other stupid idea that might sound OK from a distance at first glance.

The 75% disapproval polls are meaningless I tell you. My prescient prediction is that he will win by 100%!! What a great job he and his predecessor have done for Venezuela!!!

Pending my successful prediction of this election, I am available to predict other results for news and government organizations at a very reasonable rate of $10K per day, starting 6 months leading into the election.

Venezuelans needs to give the communist Manduro “the Romanian treatment” ASAP!

boycotting is handing it to the bad guys