Venezuela was my home, and socialism destroyed it. Slowly, it will destroy America, too.

NRIS ^ | February 15, 2019 | Daniel Di Martino,

[gattaca]

More on the author

https://young-voices.com/advocate/daniel-dimartino/

[Professional]

Slowly?? It’s already here for cripes sake.

I’m from Sweden, and everything that I saw there in the 70s, is now here. We live in a nanny state with capitalism that is 100% politically connected. All the major publicly traded companies of the USA are in absolute lock step with the left of our government.

People are in denial.

[ltc8k6]

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’ ‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

[Rurudyne]

Actually, it won’t happen slowly when it happens.

The end will come when the Petrodollar loses its exclusive status and collapses. Or if someone invented a truly practical alternative energy source.

It’s comical that the only way to sustain socialism in the US will be eliminated by the environmental wackos if they ever got their way.

[Safetgiver]

The international community must intervene....Good. Let Socialist Europe fix’em NOT the USA.

[EdnaMode]

Excellent article.

[Cleavis]

The way to fight this is to call it by its true name: TYRANNY. “Socialism” is too soft and fuzzy.

Call it TYRANNY all the time. Use the leftist statist tactic of repetition whenever possible.

[farming pharmer]

Even so, liberal economist Paul Krugman recently argued in a column that “whenever you see someone invoking Venezuela as a reason not to consider progressive policy ideas, you know right away that the person in question is uninformed, dishonest, or both.”

How did someone so arrogantly wrong, about a great many things, get to be so well known and oft quoted?

[Freedom4US]

Because he will parrot the company line. There’s really no such thing as a “Nobel Prize in Economics”; was he on the board of directors for ENRON?

He’s a douche

[Buckeye McFrog]

Author is half-right.

It will destroy America. But very slowly.
We are the wealthiest nation by far and it will take decades to hollow us out.

Plus the entire world runs on Fed printed fiat money.
The destruction will be agonizingly slow.

[upchuck]

Where did this section of the article come from:

Read more commentary: Sen. Dick Durbin: With Maduro out, democracy is finally coming to Venezuela — from within

Maduro is consolidating power in Venezuela. The international community must intervene.

Venezuela's mafia state under Nicolas Maduro is almost over. We can finally push him and his thugs out.

Doesn't seem to be part of the original.

[aquila48]

“People are in denial.”

It’s the frog in the pot syndrome.

[gattaca]

I found the article on USA Today and was not able to post because of copyright, so I found it on another site, this one. It appeared to be exactly the same. I didn’t notice that ad in the text. It’s my fault for not checking after the first several paragraphs.

[JimRed]

All my life, I lived under socialism in Venezuela until I left and came to the United States as a student in 2016.

Assuming a student visa, did you overstay, get extensions or were you kept here by invitation?

[gattaca]

Apparently he was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to attend Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

https://young-voices.com/advocate/daniel-dimartino/

[upchuck]

It’s not there now. Could be is was when you cut and pasted for posting and then the site removed it. Whatever :)

[gattaca]

I asked the moderator to remove those sentences.

[upchuck]

Thank you.