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Genuinely why are people calling maduro a dictator?
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I only recently had a change of mind so it really is because, (1) Venezuela has been utterly ravaged economically each sanction, (2) the internet has been astroturfed to hell and back and (3) it causes some cognitive dissonance and uncomfortable feeling when people imagine it is false, and if you're in the belly of the empire, and don't gain anything from accepting this reality, you would rather benefit from being ignorant
I think this is a huge part of it for a lot of people. It's much easier for someone to just not think about things and pretend that the "bad guys" "deserve it" rather than question whether the US is really the force for good in the world that they've been trained to believe.