Maduro steals election in Venezuela.

[pknopp]

People were reluctant to tell pollsters they were voting for Trump.
You think Venezuelans were reluctant to say they were voting for the dictator?

I don't really care.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

People were reluctant to tell pollsters they were voting for Trump.
You think Venezuelans were reluctant to say they were voting for the dictator?

It just blows my mind how Americans can take every single incident in the whole world and somehow tie it back to the US as if the entire world revolves around us.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It just blows my mind how Americans can take every single incident in the whole world and somehow tie it back to the US as if the entire world revolves around us.

I know, pknopp is the worst.

 

[JWBooth]

It just blows my mind how Americans can take every single incident in the whole world and somehow tie it back to the US as if the entire world revolves around us.

Well, our government's got it's dirty little fingers in almost every pie.

 

[MarcATL]

OP, what's your point?

 

[Mrkelly]

I guess the people of Venezuela like living in abject poverty in an ultraliberal state? Good for them, then, since that's what they received.

Maybe the US electorate will vote for a continuation of liberal inflation and the kind of dying cities that we are seeing in Liberal Heckholes like New York and San Fran?

We shall see.

I remember their last election

The U.S. was pissed that they didn't get their goon in back then too

And they flooded the airwaves with propaganda about the evils of Maduro

Some real journalists took a look

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I remember their last election

The U.S. was pissed that they didn't get their goon in back then too

And they flooded the airwaves with propaganda about the evils of Maduro

Some real journalists took a look

Exactly! Maduro isn't evil. He's a swell guy.

The nearly 8 million people who fled Venezuela were misinformed.

 

[surada]

Exactly! Maduro isn't evil. He's a swell guy.

The nearly 8 million people who fled Venezuela were misinformed.

They elected Chavez because there was no middle class in Venezuela. All the money and power was concentrated on a small, elite circle.. and the US manipulated the elite to our benefit. There was no investment in healthcare, education and infrastructure.

Same thing in Iran.

 

[martybegan]

They elected Chavez because there was no middle class in Venezuela. All the money and power was concentrated on a small, elite circle.. and the US manipulated the elite to our benefit. There was no investment in healthcare, education and infrastructure.

Same thing in Iran.

And now all the power is concentrated in the Party.

There was a middle class, it's usually the middle class that draws the ire of socialists in the first place.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

They elected Chavez because there was no middle class in Venezuela. All the money and power was concentrated on a small, elite circle.. and the US manipulated the elite to our benefit. There was no investment in healthcare, education and infrastructure.

Same thing in Iran.

Is the middle class bigger or smaller now, after 8 million people fled?

 

[surada]

And now all the power is concentrated in the Party.

There was a middle class, it's usually the middle class that draws the ire of socialists in the first place.

Nope. There was no middle class. Just like Iran under the Shah.

 

[surada]

Is the middle class bigger or smaller now, after 8 million people fled?

That's why you should study history. Chavez reinvested oil revenue in healthcare, education, infrastructure, business development until the ppb collapsed. I had hoped they'd make it. Crony Capitalists has mismanaged VZ's oil wealth for 80 years.

 

[martybegan]

Nope. There was no middle class. Just like Iran under the Shah.

There was a middle class, how can you show there was none?

 

[surada]

There was a middle class, how can you show there was none?

The American oil expats in VZ are very friendly with American oil expats in Saudi Arabia. The two governments have always had totally different visions of their obligations to the citizens and the use of oil revenues.

 

[martybegan]

The American oil expats in VZ are very friendly with American oil expats in Saudi Arabia. The two governments have always had totally different visions of their obligations to the citizens and the use of oil revenues.

That doesn't tell me there was no middle class.

If a country has accountants, engineers, and other professions, they have a middle class. Hell doctors and lawyers are not all upper class members.

 

[Mrkelly]

Exactly! Maduro isn't evil. He's a swell guy.

The nearly 8 million people who fled Venezuela were misinformed.

Who told you that?

 

[surada]

That doesn't tell me there was no middle class.

If a country has accountants, engineers, and other professions, they have a middle class. Hell doctors and lawyers are not all upper class members.

Never mind. Most people aren't in the professions.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

That's why you should study history. Chavez reinvested oil revenue in healthcare, education, infrastructure, business development until the ppb collapsed. I had hoped they'd make it. Crony Capitalists has mismanaged VZ's oil wealth for 80 years.

I should study history.....because you can't answer my question?

Chavez reinvested oil revenue in healthcare, education, infrastructure, business development until the ppb collapsed.

How much did he steal before the price collapsed?
How much did he steal after the price collapsed?

Crony Capitalists has mismanaged VZ's oil wealth for 80 years.

How long have the socialists been mismanaging it for?

 

[martybegan]

Never mind. Most people aren't in the professions.

You are the one claiming there is "no middle class" to excuse a dictator keeping power when it seems the people want him and his party out of power.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Who told you that?

They weren't misinformed?