If you want to know how a normal process that's developing
along a normal evolutionary line is seen by those whose mind's eyes have been
mutilated by the acid content of a virulent ideology, there is a case study that
shows you how it happens. It is an article that came under the title:
“President Obama is the last hope for Latin America 's
lefty thugs,” written by Benny Avni and published on December 9, 2015 in the
New York Post.
Ever since there was a political process in which the people
voted for those who would represent them in government, the natural process of
swinging back and forth from one side of the political spectrum to the other,
has proved to be the norm when looked at through the eyes of normal people. The
appearance of that process changes, however, when looked at through the eyes of
those whose mind's eyes were mutilated by the ideological acid that's gushing
from the boundless hatred they have in their hearts.
In addition, because the modern means of communication allow
news to travel at the speed of light, what happens in one place becomes known
everywhere on the planet almost instantaneously. And because the means of
transportation have improved greatly, people travel to various destinations around
the globe more often than ever before. They go to places where they intermingle
with others and exchange cultural tips with them. As well, the trading in goods
and services has increased exponentially between the nations.
Together, those two phenomena made possible the creation of
blocs of economies whose fortunes rise and fall in tandem with each other. The
result has been that voters in the nations of the same bloc have tended to
move in concert to one side of the political spectrum or to the other. In fact,
they went back and forth … to the left, to the right and back again on several
occasions in Europe . And now the nations of
the Asian and Latin American blocs are following suit.
This lends credence to the notion that the process is
becoming the new normal, one that is nevertheless interpreted abnormally by the
likes of Benny Avni and others who look at it through mind's eyes that were
mutilated by the acid content of the virulent ideology to which they adhere.
Avni has noticed the phenomenon unfold in Latin
America , and refused to see a naturally occurring process.
Instead, he 'connected the dots' in such a way as to make himself see the
conspiracy of a Left that has been weakened by events – something that should
cheer him up. However, he fears that the old arrangement can still be rescued
by the hated bogeyman that's Barack Obama, President of his country of birth.
What Avni hates about Obama, is that the latter refuses to place America in a position of servitude to the
caprices of Israel ,
his country of the imagination – come hell or high water.
It is not that our writer doesn't know what happened to the
South American trading blocs that prompted the electorate to vote for the
candidates who sat to the Right of the outgoing government. He said it himself
except that he spun the reality of the situation to make a false point. What is
left when you take out the spin is this: “Like elsewhere in the region, Venezuela is
reeling under the collapse of oil prices.” And that’s the whole story.
Despite that knowledge, Avni has allowed his ideology to
construct a narrative that bears no resemblance to reality, and has drawn
conclusions that are far fetched and totally unrealistic. Motivated by an
ideology that's based on hating the Castros, Obama and the Tehran ayatollahs; he put together a
narrative that goes like this:
“They ran the country's economy into the ground for 12
years, cozying up to bad actors from Caracas to Tehran … Will the collapse
of the Latin American Left next reach the Castro brothers? The only hope left
for these regimes may be a lifeline from us [Obama]”.
Furthermore, because America is going through a period
of election fever, Avni could not refrain from moving the discussion in that
direction, and help the anti-Obama forces in the process. But to do this, he
had to argue against himself, which he did.
He says that when Obama renewed relations with Havana , he gave Cuba a shot in the arm but trade
has not materialized. Because of this, he predicts that Cuba 's unsustainable economy will tank, and
people will escape the island, washing ashore in Miami .
To prevent that spectacle from happening, Obama may lean on Venezuela 's newly elected right wing government
to continue subsidizing Cuba
– just like the old days.