Posted on 06/02/2017 6:40:55 AM PDT by blam
Venezuela's coming civil war has been a long time coming, and it is still coming. The rot set in early after President Chávez was elected in 1999, as shown by Venezuela's cattle statistics.
Chávez's agricultural reforms sent cattle production into a nosedive. But no matter – there was plenty of oil revenue to make good the shortfall with imported beef. Then the oil revenue fell away, too, so ordinary Venezuelans now subsist on starchy root vegetables. Recently, individual troops have been siding with the protesters, a sign that the civil war is not far off. Despite Venezuela's troubles, population growth has kept rock-steady at 1.5% per annum – which means there is no point in trying to save Venezuela, because the country's large and increasing population, with nothing to do, won't be able to feed itself at some further future point.
A civil war is in prospect in South Africa, in which the ruling African National Congress has promoted the idea of seizing land from the remaining whites, who number 4 million out of a population of 50 million. This shouldn't be surprising, as Nelson Mandela used to sing about killing whites, as does the current South African president, Jacob Zuma. The country's HIV problem, at 13.6% in blacks and 0.3% in whites, has been kept under control by government-provided anti-retroviral drugs. A societal breakdown that stops that supply will provide a kick-along to the death rate. South Africa will resemble the set of The Walking Dead – war-torn and diseased.
There are civil wars underway in Syria, Libya, and Yemen, but nobody really cares about what happens to people who are unpleasant most of the time. Far more consequential is what is happening in Europe. Richard Fernandez's latest piece attracted a comment that included the...
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Those 4 million white people need leave... NOW.
The persistent problem in much of central and South America is what I call “Old Europe disease”. At the time of the conquest, Europe was still in the throes of monarchical feudalism of the kind just emerging from the Middle Ages.
This meant there were only two official classes, nobility and peasantry, under a form of Roman Law, that was dictated by the nobility. Wealth was concentrated with the nobility.
And this was translated to central and South America, and still exists there to this day.
Take Mexico for example. It is ruled by, and owned by, just a dozen wealthy families, who do not believe in sharing the wealth. In fact they oppose the idea of other people getting wealth, and go to lengths to prevent it.
Venezuela was much the same way, but even more extreme, a wealthy few ruling over grinding poverty for the many.
But the reaction to this is socialism, radical egalitarianism. If not to raise the poor, it is to strip the wealthy of wealth and power.
Yet this is its weak point. If they do have a revolution, and former peasants are now the leaders, they are still a part of the nobility and peasantry Old Europe system. They enrich themselves as the “new nobility”, yet still try to keep the poor in poverty.
This sounds quite ridiculous to Americans, whose nation was effectively founded a hundred years later, after the English Civil War and considerably greater democracy, and ability for all to gain wealth. And even that was not enough for the founding fathers, true believers in equality of opportunity, and with a great disdain for nobility.
So Americans have no problem with all, if they are making money, for other Americans to also make money.
But central and South America are caught between being ruled by a greedy wealthy class or out of control socialism tearing everything apart.
Those are refugees I would welcome. Not because they are white, but because they would work to contribute to our society.
Agreed. mainly we could accept all of their women.
It’s quite amazing to Americans because even here in the US people below the “poverty line” have tangible wealth compared to those in the third world.
This is the only time and place in all of history where the poor people are fat.
The penalty should be you actually have to marry them all. :-)
Bingo!
Poly mothers-in-law?
That does explain a major root-cause of the problems “south of the border”.
Not to mention that its about 50-50 chance to happen here.
The ones who were going to leave left years ago. Those 4 million are the diehards who will go down with the ship.
Between the multiplication of nagging, followed by the multiplication of divorce settlements, polygamy seems to be a penalty in and of itself.
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