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:
Alexander Bacon
You need to get a different dictionary.
Well the US did try to organize an coup when they abducted Hugo Chavez, installed a puppet dictator (who was promoted on CNN & other media outlets), but then returned Hugo Chavez after Cuban intervention. Watch “the revolution will not be televised”.
The enemy of socialism is money. Without money socialism could stand a chance. In time when we have the technical sophistication to meet everyone’s need at the price of energy we as a world can socialize. However, so long as there is currency there can NEVER be socialism.
If you don’t believe the US Government will deploy the US Military against our own citizens, you had best think again. There are contingency plans to do just that and Obama would love to attack the American people with our Military using our tax dollars to kill us.
Feeling the BERN?!
Oh and look the people dont have guns. Only the government does.
Bet they wish they had AR-15’s
big oil…as in corporation and super Rich People …stop being sheep
Sanders want America to look like this.