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NY Times: Venezuela’s economic devastation comparable to countries destroyed by war
May 17, 2019 ~ By John Sexton
Democratic socialism is working in Venezuela. It’s working to make everyone miserable and hungry. The sign in the photo above reads: “Maduro is hunger.” The NY Times (Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say - The New York Times) reports the economic decline Venezuelans are now experiencing is unsurpassed in the past 45 years outside of countries in the midst of war:-- Zimbabwe’s collapse under Robert Mugabe. The fall of the Soviet Union. Cuba’s disastrous unraveling in the 1990s. The crumbling of Venezuela’s economy has now outpaced them all. Venezuela’s fall is the single largest economic collapse outside of war in at least 45 years, economists say.
Given the scale of this disaster, it’s no longer acceptable for Democratic Socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to roll their eyes at the mention of Venezuela. They need to explain in detail how their proposals for a socialist America differ in kind from the (once widely admired) socialism Hugo Chavez introduced in Venezuela. And if they can’t spell out those differences in some detail, we should take that as an admission that they can’t guarantee the same thing won’t happen here.
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Venezuela is at war...a civil war. Unfortunately, only the gov't is armed. If Venezuela's people had the Right to keep and bear arms, Maduro would've been removed from power last year.
If the Progressive Marxist Socialist/ DSA candidates cannot point out those differences in some detail, we should take that as an admission that they can’t guarantee the same thing won’t happen here. The difference, in their mind, is the same as it's been for Marxist Socialists for the past fifty years: "If WE do it, it will work."
We should all be surprised that the NYT notices the total failure of Marxist Socialism in Venezuela, especially since they've fawned over Fidel Castro’s rape of Cuba for decades.