History will mark the year 2011 as the point at which U.S. imperialism
effectively declared war against civilization and the very concept of a
lawful global order. THAT is Obama’s awesome and awful legacy. Donald
Trump is simply exercising an imperial mandate handed down to him by the
First Black President, who put “humanitarian” lipstick on the white
supremacist pig of Manifest Destiny and American exceptionalism. Which
is why most of the Democratic Party’s congressional piglets are oinking
in favor of some form of aggression against Venezuela -- with the
exception of Hawaii’s Tulsi Gabbard ,
the only anti-war presidential candidate. “The United States needs to
stay out of Venezuela,” Gabbard tweeted. “Let the Venezuelan people
determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our
leaders—so we have to stop trying to choose theirs."
-- Glen Ford, "The Racist, Imperialist War On Venezuela" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).