Posted on 02/24/2015 4:48:20 PM PST by Kartographer
There is a very simple answer for that: the regime needs a scapegoat that pays with its hardcore, Luddite, take no hostage, resentful base. The question would be more interesting if worded differently: why does it pay to jail a few business owners?
The answer to this question is a little bit longer but not very complicated. The reason can be found in 40 years of populism light followed by 15 of populism hard. In a country that has been told that "we are rich" and that the problem is that "wealth is not redistributed as it should" you do create a sense of entitlement that can easily be turned against private enterprise. I remember as a kid how COPEI used the term acaparadeco in the 1973 campaign against Carlos Andres Perez first election. Acaparadeco is a play on words with acaparador (hoarder) and adeco (follower of AD political party). The message was clear, seedy business allied with Adecos to make the people suffer scarcities. As you can see, chavismo has invented NOTHING, just strung it out to the limit.
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They are communists. They feel all businesses must be in the hands of the government. They can’t take them over just yet so they harass them and take as much money as they can.
We are past the tipping point. Secret jails in Chicago earlier today, now more of this. Reeducation camps will follow soon. Atlas shrugged just moved from fiction to current events.
No tengo derechos de la quinta....
Or something like that...
This is a repeat of the Kulaks. The Chavistas have been reading from Stalin’s playbook.
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