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Several stories have appeared in the news about protests in Venezuela. This particular link is interesting because it includes a report from one of the students involved in the protests.
What's Going On In Venezuela (In A Nutshell) | Zero Hedge
The military shooting and killing of protesting students, as I recall, hurt the popular support of one other regime I can think of.
As I have been saying for years, Venezuela has been descending into the nightmare of leftist totalitarian governance. Now free speech is all but gone. The government has taken total control of the economy. Shortages of essential goods are widespread and people are obliged to stand in long lines to get them. It's like the Soviet Union all over again. It is the end stage of the socialist model of government, that to which all leftist agendas tend.
Socialists take power with optimism about creating a socialist utopia, but many or most of the people don't want to go along. So coercion by force and the threat of force becomes necessary to enact the socialist agenda, and from this oppression flows.
Socialists, so certain that any moron can run an economy, bung up the economic works with their ignorant, impractical ideas, and from this shortages, want, a loss of prosperity, starvation, and misery flows.
Open your eyes and see what's happening even as I write this.
What's Going On In Venezuela (In A Nutshell) | Zero Hedge
The military shooting and killing of protesting students, as I recall, hurt the popular support of one other regime I can think of.
As I have been saying for years, Venezuela has been descending into the nightmare of leftist totalitarian governance. Now free speech is all but gone. The government has taken total control of the economy. Shortages of essential goods are widespread and people are obliged to stand in long lines to get them. It's like the Soviet Union all over again. It is the end stage of the socialist model of government, that to which all leftist agendas tend.
Socialists take power with optimism about creating a socialist utopia, but many or most of the people don't want to go along. So coercion by force and the threat of force becomes necessary to enact the socialist agenda, and from this oppression flows.
Socialists, so certain that any moron can run an economy, bung up the economic works with their ignorant, impractical ideas, and from this shortages, want, a loss of prosperity, starvation, and misery flows.
Open your eyes and see what's happening even as I write this.