Why ready-made "color revolutions" are that easy to come about?

[el_chavista]

I was watching this documentary about color revolutions, "America conquests the East" or something, and it took just a handful of American-educated young guys from the targeted countries and a 60 million dollar budget for the Washingtonian officials of Bush administration to disrupting the governments of Ukrania, Georgia and Kirghistan, and got rid of Milosevich and Zhevarnadze.

Historically and ironically, demonstrations in the USA have not been that lucky. Nixon resigned because of Watergate, not for the anti-Vietnam-war students killed by the national guard in some campus. Martin Luther King's demonstrators were beaten to death in the south. The traffic-aire-controllers strike ended in the firing of all them by Reagan's administration.

Chávez survived a huge color revolution in 2002-2003. We, Venezuelans, seem to not being so sensitive to mass media propaganda and to not being appealed to that young but cynic demonstrators.

[Dimentio]

The regimes in Serbia, Ukraine and Georgia did not have a mass base support. Neither were the demonstrations that large. It was mostly an internal business of the elite, with the public as apathetic spectators.

Political Science is elitistic today. It assumes that to establish democracy, the "liberal elite" must take control. That is one of the reasons to the ambivalent reactions towards Egypt and Tunisia, since those were poverty-inspired rebellions.

[Ravachol]

The regimes in Serbia, Ukraine and Georgia did not have a mass base support. Neither were the demonstrations that large. It was mostly an internal business of the elite, with the public as apathetic spectators.

Political Science is elitistic today. It assumes that to establish democracy, the "liberal elite" must take control. That is one of the reasons to the ambivalent reactions towards Egypt and Tunisia, since those were poverty-inspired rebellions.

It's the same with all those bullshit NGO's who blab on about that in order to end poverty in africa we need a 'strong middle class' and 'checks and balances' or some liberal nonsense.

[Dimentio]

It's the same with all those bullshit NGO's who blab on about that in order to end poverty in africa we need a 'strong middle class' and 'checks and balances' or some liberal nonsense.

Sometimes, I doubt that half of their representatives really understand what they are talking about. They are probably just parroting what their teachers say and hope to get good merits so that they later could get well-paid jobs as course leaders or in private business.

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi is probably the ultimate example of that category.

[Omsk]

Neither were the demonstrations that large.
Are you joking me?

[Dimentio]

Are you joking me?

Not in comparison with Egypt and Tunisia.

The demonstrations in Serbia, Ukraine and Georgia were mostly consisting of middle class youths and businesspeople.

[Omsk]

You made a few erors,the demonstrations in Serbia consisted of people every-age and class,and they were big,for a country with a population of 9 milion.

[Dimentio]

You made a few erors,the demonstrations in Serbia consisted of people every-age and class,and they were big,for a country with a population of 9 milion.

Yes. My fault.