Exhibit A: Indeed Venezuela!

When you include Venezuela (in current form) as one of the “most free and fair democracies”, it says a lot about what you are willing to tolerate to preserve your political ideology.

I just read an interesting opinion piece in the NYT about the G. B. Shaw/Stalin bromance. Here was a humanitarian leftist who fought for universal suffrage and fair treatment of workers, but who was also one of the West’s strongest supporters of Stalin. See how emotion and ideology short-circuit objectivity?

On the issue of American foreign policy over the last 100 years, I think Chomsky documented and eviscerated it quite nicely. His ideas for a more perfect union, are a mule of a different color in my opinion: overly idealistic and unworkable given human nature (see my story “Thoughts On The Deep State”).