Posted on 12/24/2015 8:40:32 PM PST by Beave Meister
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- After a decade on the advance, the left in South America is in retreat.
Just in the past month, voters in Argentina elected a conservative businessman president over the chosen successor of Cristina Fernandez and Brazil's congress launched an impeachment probe against President Dilma Rousseff, whose approval ratings have been languishing in single digits.
In perhaps the biggest turnabout, voters in Venezuela, where the region's leftward shift began, handed the opposition a landslide victory in congressional elections - its first nationwide legislative win since the U.S.-bashing Hugo Chavez won the presidency in 1998.
The backlash comes amid an economic storm of the likes the region hasn't seen in decades. While all political dynasties are paying the price for broken economies and unchecked corruption, most of South America's governments are run by leftists who came to power as China's economy was taking off over the past 15 years, fueling demand for the region's raw materials.
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Talk about an ambiguously worded title.
It’s all Steve Harvey’s fault...
It either has a missing word or an extra letter.
Thanks for posting.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
Not to worry, though FRiends, AP ends their article on a positive, upbeat note to assure us that not all is lost: “it would be a mistake to say the left has lost all of its oomph.”
To quote Winston Churchill: Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Coming north to a continent near you.
Must be running out of other people’s money.
Try this... “The left in South America is in retreat...”
No South American left behind?
All South Americans left behind?
All South American leftists left behind?
That sentence isn't punctuated properly, something that Churchill would ordinarily do. It needs either a semicolon after "envy", or a period and the start of a new sentence. The net shows many citings with a comma there, but I'm always skeptical of quotations that don't include primary sources. I kept searching until I found a site that gives primary sources. Rather than put those two statements in the same sentence it attributes them to two different speeches.
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy." [Scottish Unionist Conference in Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948] "Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." [House of Commons, October 22, 1945]
This sort of thing may not matter to some persons, but I think it only fair to Churchill to quote him accurately. Also, errors in the evidence we cite -- even superficial ones -- give our adversaries opportunities to discredit it.
Man, I love this site. The things one learns here are second to none.
And supposedly this is a Winston Churchill quote:
Capitalism is the uneven distribution of wealth.
Socialism is the equal distribution of misery.
Communism is socialism with a gun at your head.
KTA
Oh, picky picky picky!
Rand was a prophet.
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