Ever
since the Trump administration announced that it was no longer recognizing the legitimacy of the elected
government of Venezuela I’ve been arguing with people on social media about
this president’s brazen coup attempt in that country. The people arguing with
me in favor of Trump’s interventionism are almost exclusively Trump supporters,
with leftists and antiwar libertarians more or less on my side with this issue
and rank-and-file centrists mostly preferring to sit this one out except to
periodically mumble something about it being a distraction from the Mueller
investigation.
I
engage in these arguments not because I enjoy fighting with strangers on the
internet, but because it helps me get an idea of what propaganda narratives
have been seeded throughout various political sectors. Take a stand online and
you’ll quickly have people running up to you saying, in effect, “My media echo
chamber told me I’m supposed to disagree with you about that,” and spelling out
what they’ve been told to believe.
I
have not received a single robust argument in favor of Trump’s Venezuela
interventionism, but I have received a whole lot of really, really stupid ones.
Here are the top five most common and most astonishingly idiotic of them:
Read it all at:
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/top-5-dumbest-arguments-defending-trumps-venezuela-interventionism-93d31b67aa4a
