Yeah......We call it the aptly named.....”Bernezuela”
ACADEMIA brainwashed GENERATIONS of CHILDREN. The DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION needs to go.
These people need to go to live in a former Soviet Republic for some amount of time..and then get back to me......
Kick the tires before you buy....Live in a socialist experiment for 5 years...and experience the death of hope that would otherwise fuel the human soul.
Sean Penn et al...shut up.....you have never lived it.
This childish world view will NOT bring anyone to Utopia.....the Berkeley-ite, Whole Foods, Eddie Bauer Edition of Slacktivism, where Interesting Man-Buns and Dietary Preferences proscribe Social Order....where spoiled children pontificate from Barista-levels of existentialism...all at the same time..but with no means to connect the dots that need to be connected
Herein lies the destructiveness of socialism. To begin, and as an aside, Tony Blair lived at 10 Downing Street, had private chauffeurs and chefs, and was fawned over by the public. He now travels back and forth from the UK to the US, and gives periodic lectures at Yale - for I'm sure a significant sum. Even if he made nothing, it still remains part of his charmed life - one which very few others will ever experience.
Most, if not all ‘socialist and socialism leaders’ live the same kinds of charmed lives. They are ‘above’ the rest of society, while they talk about ‘all of us being in this together’. They lead lives of stature and separateness from the rest of society, and their need to be distinguished from others has been fulfilled - but they want us to live as a homogeneous indistinguishable mass of humanity, beneath them.
The fact is that socialism steals the individuality of people. Distinguishing ourselves as individuals is a basic and essential human need. Not only is it important to us as individuals, but it drives individual accomplishment and thus contributions to society as a whole. It's fundamentally important, and every single attempt to suppress it has led to disaster. We have a fundamental and in my view God-given right to self-determination. Many of us, me included, would rather die than live in a commune-type of existence. We value our anonymity and privacy, our ability to leave the world for awhile and live apart. We need to feel we've made individual and unique contributions to the world with our lives, whether that be by what we do for our families, or what we accomplish in our professions or in our charity to others.
We aren't all in this together via government. When we are all together, it is because we came together as individuals, retaining our individuality, and giving to each other as individuals.
Because people, especially in large groups, are stupid. This is why cities and large towns vote rat.
Bill Whittle has a Utube video of the fate of animals, the zoo, pets in Venezuela. Check it out.
I remember a survival axiom. All fur bearing animals are edible.
Nuf said.
Kids have been brainwashed by Marxist teachers.
Socialism is Communism without guns.
Hardcore socialists/communists are construing Venezuela as a _CAPITALIST_ country, and using it as an example of why capitalism is so bad.