[SoConPubbie]

What has happened there was very predictable for those who understand the evils of socialism and the reaction here in the US in our media and cultural elite to Chavez and Maduro after him speaks volumes about the ignorance of the left.

Its not ignorance my friend, but a full-blown allegiance to Marxist principles and the willingness/desire to do everything in their power to clear the path for the implementation of Communism.

[volunbeer]

I don’t doubt their allegiance, but it is an allegiance born of ignorance. The same kind of ignorance we see with the 40% of people who still believe Putin put Trump in the oval office.

The power of the media, culture, and academia to shape history and current events should never be underestimated. They promote a false agenda and it is highly effective because people are lazy and they accept the credibility of these sources.

This can only exist in ignorance. Socialism is one of the most destructive forces in human history by any measure. These people sell a utopia that has never existed and ignore the abject misery it produces.

[justa-hairyape]

Have to come to believe they are possessed. Yeah...some no doubt by evil spirits...but you can be possessed by an ideology. Political correctness can possess you and control your mind. Socialism uses the candy wrapper, no more poor, and that is how it slips in and takes control. But as you can see in Venezuela, you end up with more poor because you simply end up with unproductive rich.