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Refugees from socialist countries warn Americans: Don't let it happen here
Fox News ^ | 09.16.2020 | Maxim Lott

Posted on 09/16/2020 2:33:53 AM PDT by USA Conservative

Immigrants who settled in the U.S. say recent political shifts here are starting to remind them of what they left behind

One of the most memorable moments from the Republican National Convention came when Cuban-born Maximo Alvarez cautioned Americans against creeping socialism.

“I’ve seen movements like this before,” he warned last month.

The Florida businessman is hardly alone among those who fled socialist countries. On social media and in interviews with Fox News, other immigrants who settled in the U.S. say that recent political shifts here – including class warfare, riots and language policing, not to mention calls for expansive government programs – are starting to remind them of what they left behind.

And they carry the same message as Alvarez, urging Americans not to repeat history.

Venezuela

“The millionaires, and anyone that was rich, were ‘the enemy of people’ in Venezuela,” Elizabeth Rogliani, a young woman who left Venezuela for America in 2008 and lives in Florida, said of her former country (though she cited a term that President Trump now controversially uses against the media).

She has been using her TikTok channel to try to tell people about that history.

Rogliani says she sees a parallel in politicians’ frequent attacks on “millionaires and billionaires.”

“Division between the classes was something that Hugo Chavez wanted -- to make sure that poorer sectors of society hated anyone that was wealthy,” she said.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez often declared that being rich is bad.

He defined capitalism as the "kingdom of the egoism of inequality" and socialism as the "kingdom of love, equality, solidarity, peace and true democracy."

Once, before Chavez became president in 1999, Venezuela was the wealthiest country in South America. Venezuela also has more untapped underground oil than any country in the world, even Saudi Arabia.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; democrats; didyousearch; marxism; socialism
I have an idea....liberals love socialism, many citizens have fled Venezuela because of socialism. Why can’t we send the US liberals to Venezuela to live??

I’ll pony up for a few 1 way tickets!!!

1 posted on 09/16/2020 2:33:53 AM PDT by USA Conservative
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What’s the point of socialism if liberals can’t force it on conservatives?


2 posted on 09/16/2020 2:41:02 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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3 posted on 09/16/2020 3:05:10 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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4 posted on 09/16/2020 3:07:14 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: USA Conservative

No Communistas! No Socialistas !


5 posted on 09/16/2020 3:11:18 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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Liberal socialist are in a position to control thats why they wont leave


6 posted on 09/16/2020 3:37:06 AM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: USA Conservative

Capitalism *is* horrible. Except, just like democracy, everything else humanity has ever tried is far, far, far, far worse. :P

Democracy and capitalism are the least worst choices. :P


7 posted on 09/16/2020 3:45:38 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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But they’re minorities, low IQ and incapable of doing anything for themselves in this racist slave nation. Thank God for elitist democrats who take the time to sacrifice our liberty and tax money to care for them.


8 posted on 09/16/2020 3:54:09 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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American education systems has dumb down Students to the point where they don’t believe the millions of people that were slaughtered in socialists and communists regimes.


9 posted on 09/16/2020 6:35:47 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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