Indeed, Chavez and Maduro were not imposed by aliens - they are Venezuelans, coming out of their own culture, supported for a long time by Venezuelans.
I’m finding it difficult to care. When everyone in society are collectivists and admires socialism, you may get very lucky and wind up like Canada, or most of the time, you wind up like Cuba, Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
why does Argentina bounce from among constant political and economic crisis? Because the country is filled with people like Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
That’s the problem. If you have a predominantly native population, even despite their collectivist inclinations, they can one day say ‘enough!’ That’s why you have to import shiploads of immigrants, so if you get fed up with collectivism, you’ll just be called a xenophobic racist, and get beat down.