American Thinker quotes portions of an essay from a left-leaning newspaper guy in Venezuela.
You won't like what you read, especially if you live in NYC or Los Angeles.
First, from the Thinker essayist:
Look at the despair and the sorrow of the people unable to rescue their injured loved ones from beneath the tons and tons of rubble, some of them calling out, dying, in homes transforming by the hour into tombs. . . There's no search and rescue, there's no ambulances, there's no hospitals, there's no fire trucks, and yes, fires are breaking out nightmarishly enough -- Venezuela's health care lies in ruins - nor is there an organized effort to dig out.
Socialism has well and truly taken over in that country, and as this leftish but still good essayist in the Caracas Chronicles notes, one of the effects is that the state has abandoned its basic functions of government. . .
Los Angeles already has experience with that--more specifically, Pacific Palisades, which found out what it REALLY costs to be governed by a Progressive Communist. No water, horrific mistakes by Fire Department command, no clear path to rebuilding...........and Pacific Palisades is no more.
Not as bad as Venezuela. Yet.
The state of roads in the City of Milwaukee is a signal. Faint & distant, yes, but.......So rather than commit more State dollars to road maintenance for municipalities, our Governor's Radical Left Communist aides are petitioning for a choo-choo train.
(Quoting the Venezuelan author:)
Since at least 2022, the Venezuelan state has increasingly adopted a hands-off approach to governance. This shift, shaped by a post-socialist form of laissez-faire economic policy, reduced state control over large parts of the economy and contributed to a modest but visible revival in business activity. In many ways, the state appeared to retreat from major areas of public administration while preserving absolute control over others, particularly the security apparatus and the machinery of censorship and political repression ...
Oh. Sorta like how the Biden Regime controlled social sites? Hmmmmm?? Sorta like the Biden Regime's persecution of J6 grannies? Trump loyalists? Catholics? And on the flip side, its promotion of chaos in sexual perversions, "trannies", and abortion?
Some think that the trend toward Totalitarianism-by-Socialist-Democrat Communists will reverse because that form of governance simply does not work, and the lessons of Pacific Palisades and the rest of California, (not to mention what will soon happen in NYC) will be recognized and then the voters will reverse course.
Maybe.
But buying more ammo, and a couple of spare rifles, is never a bad idea.
1 comment:
Like all good propaganda by female writers (Monica, the author of the piece), this line is effective because it contains an element of truth. The socialist policies of former President Hugo Chávez have devastated the country. Wide-ranging and chaotic expropriations, disastrous price and currency controls, stifling regulations, and unbridled hostility toward the private sector and foreign investment have all helped produce the economic catastrophe that now engulfs Venezuela.
But to focus on Venezuela as a failure of socialism is to miss the real story: the collapse of the Venezuelan state and the takeover of its resources by a confederation of ruthless criminals from both inside and outside the country.
Venezuela is a hub for traffickers in every kind of contraband: from price-controlled consumer staples to cocaine bound to the United States and Europe, as well as diamonds, gold, weapons, and sex workers. The proliferation of bodegones—semi-legal retailers that flout price controls in hawking contraband consumer goods—has increasingly reshaped the domestic market for what remains of the middle class. These middlemen then funnel the proceeds straight to the friends, family, and accomplices of the governing elite.
Venezuela is a hub for traffickers in every kind of contraband. But government cronies and the military are not the only ones controlling large-scale criminal enterprises. Sprawling prison-based criminal gangs are the effective civil authority over vast territories, as are rebel fighters from neighboring Colombia’s guerrilla movements. They extort payments from thousands of small businesses, farmers, and ranchers. Some run illegal mines, relieving local authorities of the savage business of keeping order in the mining settlements, and providing the government its last reliable source of foreign currency in the wake of oil sector sanctions.
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