Garrison Davis

And it's a hard truth that I think many leftists need to hear and understand.

And I say that as someone who is also saddened by this because I want to see a more left-leaning future, especially for my country.

But I don't think it can happen if people don't start accepting realities like these.

Thank you.

The other thing that gets collapsed a lot, I think, is the Venezuelan opposition, right?

Like, it is always amusing to see, like, I myself, I'm not a communist, right?

I'm not a state communist anyway.

And I've seen, like, the Venezuelan Communist Party and the communist youth of Venezuela, like, they'll put out a thing being like, we support opposition.

And then you'll see people being like, oh, no, we're communists, but like American communists who don't speak Spanish, like, are engaging with them.

It's...

It's very funny to see that in their mind, all opposition in Venezuela is of the right wing, like MCM tendency.

There are many very valid reasons why people on the left would be opposed to what's happening.

Does it feel particularly isolating to be of the left and at the same time have...

this constant assumption that to be in opposition, you have to be of the right.

It feels isolating when it comes to dealing with non-Venezuelans, but when it comes to dealing with Venezuelans, not really.

I mean, pretty much all of my friends, I mean, as a queer artist, like most of my friends are also like pretty left-leaning and,

You have different kinds of people on the left, right?

But yeah, when it comes to my Venezuelan friends, it is not isolating at all.

Because precisely, we already know what's going on.

We know that the opposition isn't just a right-wing thing.