Posted on 05/23/2016 7:00:55 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
I'm praying that Venezuela can find a way back from this. And that the United States isn't dumb enough to go down the same road
In case you haven’t heard, Venezuela went all in on feeling the Bern more than a decade ago. Socialism has been about as complete a disaster there as it’s possible for a thing to be. Just to give you one example: How does a country with more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia end up with a gas crisis? I’ll tell you how: A corrupt central-planning government mismanages its resources while making it impossible for anyone to earn a profit producing or selling anything.
You say the difference is that Bernie wants “democratic socialism”? I hate to tell you this, but Hugo Chavez was popularly elected, and popular elections have kept his successor Nicolas Maduro in office. The problem is not that the socialism isn’t democratic. It’s that it’s socialism.
Not half as much as the Venezuelan people do.
“Don’t blame me! Look over there!”
Said the dictator.
A variation on “Wagging the Dog”.
Personally honest (but hopelessly naive) people like Bernie are powerless to prevent it even if they were able to discern it.
> Not half as much as the Venezuelan people do.
The very first thought that entered my head!
Great minds, and all that.
No need, Nick, you’re doing a fine job of it all by yourself. Wait until you order the army to fire into demonstrators.
While you still have the chance.
You cant run a society that way
I doubt they would need a lot of persuading.
This guy knows what's coming. The pot is about to boil over and he wants to get himself and his money out before the mobs come after him.
The socialists are in charge in the US and the other socialists are still using the country as their scapegoat.
The textbook definition of obfuscate, really.
If any foreign country wanted to implant an agent to take over Venezuelan government to weaken and impoverish the country, to divide, confuse and frighten society, make corrupt its institutions and overall prepare that country for easy conquest - such an enemy could not have put in place a better secret agent than Maduro.
We are used as the boogeyman so often we should be charging a fee.
No, Maduro, you are doing just fine turning them yourself!
I laugh at socialists squirming in their own s***.
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