Glenn Greenwald
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They weren't representative of the people who are actually in Iraq, who remember are indoctrinated with all kinds of things.
OK, first of all, this discourse is completely contrary to everything else we've been hearing for years from the conservative movement, which is the idea that Venezuelans and other Latin Americans, Central Americans, Latin Americans cannot come to our country and assimilate because they are primitive.
They don't share our values.
They can't.
understand liberal democracy.
They can't integrate into American culture the way, say, Europeans could, Italians could, the Irish could.
It's a different race.
It's a different culture.
This is something that we've been hearing for a long time.
Now, suddenly, Venezuelans are very aligned with us and similar to us and are ready to adopt Jeffersonian democracy in a way that the Iraqis weren't.
That's the first thing.
The second thing is,
Most of the people in these countries, in Venezuela and elsewhere, are poor people.
They're not very well educated.
They've been living under communism for 25 years now.
They are indoctrinated to believe that the United States is evil, just like we're indoctrinated to believe that Cuba and Venezuela and communist countries are evil.
They have that same level of indoctrination.
They're not reading freely the media or having open debates in Venezuela.
They don't want the United States, who they view, and Hugo Chavez was a very popular Venezuelan leader before Maduro, used to talk about how George Bush was Satan, the United States is the great Satan.
These are things they've been indoctrinated with for a long time.