As Venezuela Crumbles, Will America’s New ‘Socialists’ Pay Attention?

Acton Institute ^ | May 18, 2016 | Joseph Sunde

[Steely Tom]

Nope.

You won’t even hear about in the MSM, unless some reporter can come up with an angle that blames it on US.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

They’ll pay attention to the bong as it bubbles.

[ctdonath2]

One problem is how long it takes for the collapse to occur. This case has been under way for a couple decades. It’s long enough that “Atlas Shrugged” even required the plot be hustled along by powerful people he11-bent on forcing the collapse ASAP. People just don’t make the connection; if they did they’d lynch the socialists pronto.

[ExSES]

Of course not..., Socialism always fails because their "leaders" were not smart enough..., obviously the new delusional will be secure in their knowledge that "They can do it right!"

[ExSES]

Of course not..., Socialism always fails because their "leaders" were not smart enough..., obviously the new delusional will be secure in their knowledge that "They can do it right!"

[SkyDancer]

Nope. They’ll just say that there wasn’t an educated socialist to run the country into the ground better -

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[SpaceBar]

Watching the national tv news. Donald Trump, long airport security lines, woman in the workforce, and a structural fire. Not a peep about the current meltdown in Venezuela. A virtual news blackout on anything that would tip over the socialist applecart meme.

[Col Frank Slade]

They won’t pay attention till the toilet paper runs out.

[Kickass Conservative]

Make America Venezuela Aga.... Sanders 2016!

[yarddog]

They wanted to be another Cuba.

I have no idea why. Cuba despite being a small country getting billions in subsidy from Russia yearly is a basket case.

[ColdOne]

No way this sees the light of day in any NWO media.

[ColdOne]

I think I read Brazil is in unrest too. Hard to find that story as well.

[dfwgator]

The only economy in Latin America that isn’t in the crapper is that of Chile.

And we know who to thank for that, even though to The Left, he is the worst person, since Hitler.

[heights]

Remember ten years ago, when Democrat underground was having orgasm over Venezuela’s glorious Socialist revolution? I bet you couldn’t find a mention on their site today...

[arthurus]

“They didn’t do it right. We will do it right.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fly in the redistributionist ointment is that capitalism produces all the the things the redistributionists wish to redistribute.

Once they succeed in destroying capitalism they shortly thereafter run out of things to redistribute.

[arthurus]

Toilet paper ran out last year.

[Farmer Dean]

After that they drink the water.