I don’t care about Maduro, as far as I’m concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It’s a collective hangover, a horrible one.
It’s 2016 all over again. It’s seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it’s more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.
This is far from improving, and we know it.
The reason that Trump had to strong-arm American Universities and deport anti-zionist organizers is because the protests were working. People were paying attention and the government was coming off badly. Opinion on Zionism is at a multi-decade low in the US. When the Universities cracked down to appease Trump, the protests should have stepped up. Unfortunately for the world, they faded away. Protests are very effective - they have toppled governments all over the world, including the decades-long regimes of brutal dictators. If more Americans find the courage and will to protest and strike, Trump and MAGA can be stopped. They want you to believe that protest doesn’t work.
Those are fair points. Also, not only is opinion on Zionism at a low, but for the first time since they started asking the question, more Americans sympathize with Palestinians than Israelis. So that’s true, that is significant… but it still didn’t stop America from sending a single dollar to the Zionist entity. I guess you could say they worked but they didn’t entirely succeed.