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I learned long ago that the truth will never win you any popularity contests because the media voices with the biggest amplifiers are typically the ones most invested in running cover for government lies.
If you listen to those voices, many of them on Fox News, the January 3 kidnapping of Venezuela’s socialist dictator was a noble effort by a freedom-loving American president who seeks to set the captives free and bless us with cheap oil and endless prosperity. Many alternative media talkers, such as Alex Jones and others with large audiences, have also latched onto this narrative.
They look at these operations in a vacuum as opposed to in the broad scope of history and the track record of previous regime-change operations. That record is long on blood, violence and pillage and short on freedom and democracy.
Those who depend on these influencers for their “news” tend to be folks who live in the moment and the feel-good emotions sparked by video clips they see being passed around on social media. They see liberated Venezuelans dancing in the streets amid overflowing jubilation.
And they drink the Kool Aid.
It tastes so good they want to share it with the rest of us.
In their excitement, some will ask you what you think about Venezuela. Here’s where it gets interesting.
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