[Kartographer]

What we can look forward to as we slide more and more into the mire of socialism

[Kartographer]

I recomend that you might like to occassionally read this blog at is documentation of what a slow slide into SHTF looks like.

also please consider this our weekly Prepper’s Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, advice and ideas .....

To start things off I have gotten a number of request for recommendations for radiation detectors and where to buy them. Any fellow prepper have recomendation they would like to share??

[Jack Hydrazine]

I read in another article that violent crime has quadrupled since Chavez took office.

[Obadiah]

The solution is, if there is still one, through a change of regime, a change of policies, a change of priorities. There is no way around it. Under Chavez murder rate has increased 5 fold and population not even 1.5 fold. There is no way around, the extent of crime today is Chavez fault, no matter what the origins of crime are or were.

Not much dirrent than what is occurring right here in the USA under Obama.

[driftdiver]

Didn’t Chavez also ban guns early on?

[FredZarguna]

And, it's going to take more than just money to keep the underclass and its upscale enablers with their gated communities and private schools happy. Just one example, recently commented on at FR and elsewhere: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/27/obama-backs-race-based-school-discipline-policies/

Maximum violence between classes always manifests itself between classes at closest socio-economic distance, NOT between the classes that are furthest apart. And one of the harbingers of revolution is that it reaches whole new levels just before the SHTF.

[TADSLOS]

Sobering read.

[marron]

Venezuela is what it looks like after the SHTF.

Everything looks normal to an outsider’s eyes. It just isn’t.

[BfloGuy]

Because the regime knows very well that people standing for hours in line for a few pounds of flour, or hidden at night at home after nightfall are not going to have much time or mood to be actively criticizing, and even less conspiring.

Yes, and the socialists also know that allowing, and, indeed, encouraging endless and consequence-free sex will also occupy the time and minds of the hoi polloi. Providing contraceptives and, failing that, paying for the almost inevitable result, either through abortion or, if need be, support payments, will cement the deal with voters too preoccupied to pay much attention to anything else.

"Daniel In Venezuela" is a very compelling blog. I'd forgotten about it for a while. Thank you for posting.

[prairiebreeze]

Very interesting blog piece. Thanks for the pings.

[grumpygresh]

When we reach the Venuzulean level of dystopia, at least the people will have more guns to resist the tyrants.