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Socialist Bolivia heading for the ash heap of history?
americanthinker.com ^ | 11/10/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 11/10/2019 9:17:47 AM PST by rktman

Like all dictatorships, every socialist hellhole dictatorship eventually falls. It's a law of nature, and with socialism inherently unsustainable as both a political and an economic system, it's a law about as certain as 'what goes up, must come down.'

Which brings us to Bolivia, where embattled far left Hugo-Chavez-trained socialist dictator Evo Morales, now on his fourth term in a grossly rigged election, has for the first time wobbled in fear in response to protests.

Here's the New York Times' comically delicate reportage:

Faced with unrelenting protests over the results of disputed elections in which he claimed victory, President Evo Morales of Bolivia announced on Sunday that he would call new elections.

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TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy; Russia
KEYWORDS: bolivia; china; cuba; evomorales; nicaragua; putinsbuttboys; russia; socialists; venezuela
HUH?! Didn't we just (some of us) see this played out on the 2nd season of Jack Ryan? As opposed to what some folks saw in the series, I saw the SJW white (rich) lady beat the evil 'dictator' who put journalists and opposition folks in secret concentration camps and was taking kick backs from foreign interest in drilling for hard to find resources and someone (the US) allegedly inserting themseleves in the coming elections. Lucky for us we have duh-mo-crat contestants who know how to do socialism the "right" way. Or not. Anyway..............
1 posted on 11/10/2019 9:17:47 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

And those elections will be just as rigged. Commies never give up power willingly. They have a mandate from the masses, don’cha know?


2 posted on 11/10/2019 9:20:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Like all dictatorships, every socialist hellhole dictatorship eventually falls.

Yet the Left keeps selling socialism and the ignorant and gullible keep buying it.

3 posted on 11/10/2019 9:20:44 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Has to make room for Venezuela.


4 posted on 11/10/2019 9:24:46 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

And eventually the US.


5 posted on 11/10/2019 9:25:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jim 0216

To PDJT: “HOW DARE YOU call it a sh**hole!”


6 posted on 11/10/2019 9:26:01 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Jim 0216

Left’s 2020 slogan:”Make America Like Venezuela (MALV, pronounced mal-v). What a slogan.


7 posted on 11/10/2019 9:29:26 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Jim 0216

I once produced a geological compendium about Bolivia’s natural resources and interviewed their highest ranking government officials. Of course, they all live behind 20’ walls and own opulent homes with stunning, hand crafted furniture and are catered to by service people. Outside the walls exists stark poverty and military police with automatic rifles.


8 posted on 11/10/2019 9:33:08 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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My husband flew corporate jets and one time he had to stop in Bolivia and get something repaired. What he described was such poverty and bleak conditions. However, he did manage to get what he needed and got out of there.


9 posted on 11/10/2019 9:40:53 AM PST by Aria
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Shout it from the rooftops. The Delusional Lying Leftist Media never will.


10 posted on 11/10/2019 9:41:25 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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"President Evo Morales . . . the country's first Indigenous leader . . . "If he were a right-winger, they'd call him a "dictator" and a "strong man."
11 posted on 11/10/2019 10:00:17 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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Some heads of state just don’t get it: To be prosperous as a country, you have to get as many people working productively as possible. You do this by giving them an incentive to do so: money as the fruits of their labors.

Socialist regimes want everyone to earn around the same amount, so why work hard for a promotion when you won’t get any more money? Plus they take more of your money when you earn more, with the same result.

Socialist regimes seize major industries (”nationalizing”), making it a very stupid idea to even think of opening a business in a socialist country. Leading to a loss of potential jobs.

Socialism kills incentive, inventiveness, imagination, initiative.


12 posted on 11/10/2019 10:04:30 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Morales needs to hire Shifty Schiff to go out and convince Bolivia that everything is completely on the up and up.


13 posted on 11/10/2019 10:23:05 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: I want the USA back

and the most important thing. The ability for the average Joe to start his own business.


14 posted on 11/10/2019 10:25:44 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: rktman
...but that wasn't REAL Socialism...


15 posted on 11/10/2019 11:09:44 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: LittleBillyInfidel
Outside the walls exists stark poverty and military police with automatic rifles.

I spent some time down there working with DEA on Operation Snow Cap. Strange country I guess sometime back in the 1960s the military attempted to take over the country.

They were put down by the national police (Umapar) in under a week. Since then the military has been a complete joke a bunch of guys walking around with flip flops, shorts and rusty old WW-II rifles.

The national police were extensively funded by the US government to help with the war on drugs. They had new everything gear wise and received training from US law enforcement and US Special Forces. My experience with the Umapar was quite good, we could trust them.

16 posted on 11/10/2019 11:33:32 AM PST by usurper ( version)
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War ON drugs or war FOR drugs? 💉😐
17 posted on 11/10/2019 12:59:45 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Morales has backed Maduro, Castro...expect Putin and them to back up Morales.


18 posted on 11/10/2019 2:40:09 PM PST by rrrod
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