Only a government that prizes ideology over common sense would sit on the world's largest oil reserves while simultaneously inflicting a food crisis on the country.
And they still can't see their way out.
Only a government that prizes ideology over common sense would sit on the world’s largest oil reserves while simultaneously inflicting a food crisis on the country.
And they still can’t see their way out.
For the leadership, it’s not a lack of common sense, it’s a greedy grasp on absolute power. Socialists need socialism (along with bread lines, political prisons and ultimately mass murder) to maintain themselves in power. They have nothing to offer. No skills. Nothing. Their only possible job is ruthless dictatorship. Without that, they’d be unemployed bums in a thriving capitalist society.
Likewise the coddled kids in rich western universities who dream of socialism, they too, like their leadership heroes in socialist totalitarian regimes, have no skills, no hope of productive lives other than grabbing power, enslaving everyone else and being the ruthless bosses of society.