But calling two things the same (specially if one of them is taken to be evil) because of the incidental similarities is one of the ways of throwing reason out the window and going into propaganda. It might sound pretty to use their flawed world view against them. But it has pitfalls. The Venezuelan opposition did try it, and lost badly to unscrupulous people willing to go hyperbolic still faster while disregarding any attempt at discourse.

Reason, common sense and a sense of reality is what we need to prevent them from doing what they will with us. They are able to so far as we cannot tell them off (and resist them) when they shoot the next piece of BS, the next unethical proposition (with apparent good intentions). That happens when we are on shaky ground about what is BS, about what is unethical and wrong, and lastly about a right, honest answer for a counterproposal.

If they will not ban the Law that limit salaries, and they go to early retirement they are admitting that their actual salaries are not moral, nor ethical and they not deserved it.

Now what’s “capitalistic” in this decision? A pack of immensely corrupt and inept judges (and part of court packing they were, knowingly), who were named to impart justice (at least nominally) but in reality were bought and paid even before that, to impart the buyers’ (Chavez) decisions (fraud here)?. Now they vote themselves a pension and keep “working” (further fraud). With absolutely no oversight or input from either the people or a representative thereof (Clodosbaldo Rufian?).

It’s greed, corruption, and all that. But I see no capitalism there. The only capitalist transaction will occur when these thieves go shopping with their self-appointed payment.

Sadly, it was the Chávez Government that stopped the new pension system approved by Congress under Caldera in 1998, they spent 6 months, “reviewing” it, then another six months and the whole thing died. It was a giagantic step forward, but all these revolutionaries who are Professors (Giordani, Navarro, Merentes) realized that they would not be able to retire at 50, but at 65 and they would only get a fraction of that they would get under the old system. Thus, they bagged the whole thing.

Such are the ways of this cynical and fake revolution.