Socialism always starts as a “people’s movement,” with mindless and ignorant people being directed by elitist con men in the background, telling the foolish that by bringing down the “rich,” everyone will share in the abundance that socialism will bring. It is always a lie, and invariably almost all the people end up in poverty, with the exception of the top socialist leaders who live like kings. Fidel Castro is certainly one who has lived that life, and his protege, Hugo Chavez destroyed the Venezuelan economy pursuing the same socialist policies.
When the economy comes crashing down, it is necessary for the leadership to blame an outside source, and when Chavez was alive, he continually named the United States for all of the woes the country was suffering from. In fact, the oil rich country provides 9 percent of the U.S. gross oil imports, which must be a considerable sum of export income to the nation of 30 million people. As such, the U.S. provided a huge portion of the countries income, but Chavez resented that as well.
Venezuela has expropriated foreign and domestic businesses, which means that the people have little invested in the country and are becoming very unhappy with the leadership as it nosedives to complete economic ruin.
For more on the Venezuelan “people’s paradise,” see page 2:
This is true
Communist Socialism and Democratic socialism are not the same thing why are you allowing your commenters to be this ignorant on the subject is important?
Why do you think Bernie is a communist?
Why on earth would the US put its military resources at risk to invade Venezuela? We could’nt possibly destroy them faster than they are doing themselves…
You would probably be surprised how many mindless people are in America . They would fall in line if told! We are in trouble!
show of hands,,, how many anti socialism posting people here have actually lived in a socialist country?
Just remember Lenin said he was a democratic socialist also. Putting a friendly sounding word in front of it doesn’t make it any less corrupt nor oppressing
Socialists like communists never relinquish their power. Great sounding ideas but in actuality the powerful rulers also become the 1% of wealthy
Take your head out of your Butt maybe you could see daylight, sheesh…
So you want your leaders to become the 1%? That’s what happens in socialist and communist ruled countries