If you want your answer, look south to Houndorus, that is a true preview of what would happen.
I have a good friend who is originally from Venezuela, her parents are still there and she was down there for a month this summer visiting. Talking to her about what is going on there, and considering our own situation, i really could see how it came about. Recently Chavez passed a law saying that children at age 3 had to be educated in government centers. My friend said, he TOLD US he was going to do all of this, people laughed and said oh he’s a crazy man, he won’t be able to do those things. And daily he does more and more of them. Other than those living in Caracas, people just try to go about living their normal every day lives without focusing on him and what he is doing to their country. i can see that here. Prior to healthcare, which really got people riled up, Obama could pass stuff incrementally, and then people would one day wake up and say OMG, what has happened. It alarms me, the parallels i see between our situation and what happened in Venezuela. And then we have the diversity officer at the FCC, paying homage to chavez’ great revolution. scary stuff. we want to believe that Glenn Beck is an alarmist, that Obams could never get away with anything REALLY radical. The venezuelans thought the same thing of Chavez.