Those who identify as Democratic Socialists are now homeless on the traditional left, just as those who identify as Red Tories are homeless on the right as well
Over the past 10 years, extremes have been allowed to overtake both sides
This incredible situation is especially dangerous for Canada, as the far-left & far-right are most concerned with building their ranks from youths & low-info voters who aren't experienced enough to see how they're being radicalized
My case in point arises from Niki Ashton today
This royal daughter of the left had the audacity to lambaste Canada for behaving as a moderate & democratic mediator, as she argues for communism & nuclear weapons
Have to wonder if @nikiashton bothered to do any homework before opining about #Venezuela & purpose of the Canadian-managed Lima Group, or if her only source of information arises from Russian bots on social media
Plz let me explain...
Ms Ashton's post defies all facts from the likes of the UN Human Rights Commission, that physically attended #Venezuela & found her beloved Maduro murdering peaceful protesters, journalists, judges, politicians, & aid workers
Con't...
All @nikiashton & @NDP had to do was visit the Wikipedia page & bother to click the reference footnotes that lead to all original, confirmed, & published facts about the political & human crisis in #Venezuela
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Instead of studying the issue & evaluating any facts, the @NDP took uninformed pot-shots based on nothing more than partisan hatred that stand to get hundreds of innocent people killed by denying their human & constitutional rights
Ms Ashton & the @NDP don't even appear to recognize the many iterations of socialism, or that democratic socialism is different from communist socialism & how many communists use the word socialism to spin the reality of a dictatorship
This naive behaviour is what sinks the @NDP with right-wing columnists, who are thoroughly happy to exploit the left's inability to define itself & whether it waxes communist like the interpretations of Stalin, Mussolini, & Hitler
It does the @NDP & partisans no favours when @nikiashton attacks PMJT because Maduro claimed to practice socialism in #Venezuela
(I strongly encourage everyone who might be getting angry to read the prior Wiki page in its entirety)
Nicolas Maduro is no saint & the type of socialism the @NDP currently supports is identical to Russia & Vladimir Putin's interpretation, as well as China & Xi Jinping
In fact, those are the nations propping up Maduro in #Venezuela
So the @NDP, to its embarrassment, is now supporting Russia's delivery of nuclear weapons to #Venezuela (an identical repeat of the Bay of Pigs, that narrowly averted decimating everyone in North America when it first occurred in Cuba)
The @NDP, to its embarrassment, is now supporting Maduro in withholding life-saving medications & the most basic food from everyone in #Venezuela
It supports killing anyone who tries to deliver that aid in a humanitarian crisis
The @NDP supports throwing opposition members in jail so they can't run in elections, again identical to Putin's Russia
They support denying elections, severe corruption, & installing Maduro forever against #Venezuela's constitution
The @NDP supports Maduro in severing the public's access to news media & social media, so the only communication #Venezuelans can receive is controlled by a dictator - as they starve, die without medicine & get shot if they complain
What the @NDP now advocates is socialism-gone-wrong, akin to Hitler's Germany
It's frightening the party of bleeding hearts is even offside with Angela Merkel, the world's mother who has the benefit of this very experience & wisdom
Maduro was *not* democratically elected in #Venezuela, according to all election monitors from around the globe including Jimmy Carter's institution
The only factions that claim he was are: Russia, China, Syria, Iran, & Canada's @NDP
It's not easy to advocate for democracy when it may give your opponent the win & it's not easy to navigate around the US when Trump & Pompeo are peddling violence to replace diplomacy
But this is precisely what's needed in #Venezuela
PMJT & Freeland have accepted a colossal task, to be an honest broker for the benefit of #Venezuela & bring a peaceful end to the crisis
The Lima Group deserves support to avert a repeat of the Bay of Pigs & any more bloodshed
The @NDP lost its way RE the definition of socialism in #Venezuela
Umberto Eco was also misled by buzzwords & propaganda in his youth. Perhaps @nikiashton & @theJagmeetSingh could learn from his experience too
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