I support Cuba and understand that regime change would make things much worse. My twitter timeline is full of MLs going "this is color revolution" as if it explains things. It made me wonder, what exactly makes a color revolution a color revolution.
I've read the wikipedia article and what I got is most of them are started by nonviolent student protests during disputed elections or other point of instability. Many are supported by western NGOs. What makes them inherently bad though? They sound like a strategy without specific ideological leaning...
For the same reason astro-turfing is bad. Some very real grievances get picked up and exaggerated so that sweeping right-wing reforms can be out in place. It;s foreign interference and dictatorship under the guise of democracy and reform.