Posted on 02/09/2019 8:06:09 PM PST by MtnClimber
A favorite Saturday activity of mine involves chatting with a merry band of socialists who clot on a main street near me. Dreadlocked, dreary, and decked in alarming red, they implore every passersby somehow to stop U.S. “imperialism” in Venezuela. From outside Starbucks a mere 4,738 miles away.
Most of us drenched in false consciousness prefer shuffling around, buying things we don’t need, and documenting our largely pointless existence via Instagram. The apparent injustice roiling in South America doesn’t resonate.....
Because the Venezuela of reality is now inconvenient. That’s why you won’t hear Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) talk much about it. Corbyn and his pals here insist on “caution.” That Maduro was elected by the people. A courtesy not extended to President Trump.
The reality must never besmirch the idea. An idea Maduro is so committed to, he told reporters this week that humanitarian aid is not welcome. It would humiliate his people.
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Socialism is the end result of stupid, emotionally troubled people being in charge.
JoMa
The main reason it works in the short term is there is still wealth left over from the prior rulers; in the case of Venezuela, they originally had a lot of money from oil sales that is now gone.
Usually it lasts a bit longer in places where the lower class really has a miserable existence; for them even what we view as spectacular failures is an improvement over the prior arrangement. Red China and Cuba probably fit this mold; Chiang’s army supposedly didn’t even have a medical corps (if you were wounded, tough sh!t). The problem in Venezuela is that too many people remember much better times; these aren’t Incas from the Andes but often educated modern people.
Once the upper and middle classes flee (which happened in Cuba, and to some extent, Venezuela) the communists could probably win valid elections until people are literally starving. Places like Newark NJ or the NYC district won by that barmaid are cases like this; the Dem primary is the real election, as so few “normal” even live and vote in those places. They last in the US because much of the safety net (free sh!t) is federalized, so productive states subsidize these economic dead zones.
A Socialist is a
Communist that has not
The Guts to pull a Trigger!
Time to prep. More ammo and freeze dried.
Hitler & crew were all socialists as were Mao, Stalin at al. Communists like Fascists are all socialists and they all pull the ‘trigger’ sooner or later
Pseudo-socialists like the EU Brussels bunch are not yet full fledged socialist likely because they all know from either personal or family experiences what full socialists are.
AOC et all have no idea and are going full tilt into becoming brothers and sister to Stalin and Mao. As you remember, the Weathermen (full socialists) forecast that when they assumed control (back in the 70s) they would need to eliminate 25,000,000 Americans as ‘not re-educatable’. AOC et al would follow that figure with an additional number of millions to adjust for population growth.
using history as a guide, what is required is preemptive leftacide.
if they are gone, they cannot take power and kill Christian conservatives
1 month in Congress and she’s already a multi-millionaire. Netflix and a book deal. Good work if you can find it.
Let’s see what she thinks about tax rates now.
heh heh heh heh, prolly not
Bartendering is the secret ingredient to a socialist paradise. This time it will work!
just needed a girly touch
Socialism never works. It it inherently flawed.
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