For losing weight. US is the fattest country, perhaps the Democrats just want to make us healthier? An average Venezuelan has lost 24 pounds since the shift in political ideology.
Venezuelans report big weight losses in 2017 as hunger hits - Reuters
Come on man, you and I both know Venezuela isn't really socialist. It's a dictatorship hiding behind the name.
Well..... yes that is somewhat true. I think the problem is, that is the very nature of socialism. Socialism and dictatorship, is like icing on cake. They go hand in hand.
You really can't have socialism, without some amount of dictatorship, because people will naturally fight against having everything they worked for, being stolen from them and given to those who didn't earn it.
In 2001, Chavez made moves to confiscate land, and redistribute wealth. It was the very next year, 2002, that rebels started an armed rebellion, and Chavez was almost removed from power.
This is normal under socialism, because people oddly, don't like working really hard only to have what they worked for stolen from them. Crazy concept?
It was January 2005, that Chavez enacted a direct land-redistribution law. It was just a few months later in March of 2005, that Chavez put in place a law against slandering public figures... namely himself.
Enact socialism, and clamp down on free speech. Socialism and dictatorship go hand in hand.
Venezuela profile - Timeline
This is why every socialist government end up in dictatorship consistently. Because without dictatorship, socialism won't survive. Go to Cuba and complain the Castros. Good luck with that. Go to North Korea and take a propaganda poster down. See how that works for you. Go to China, and basically do anything the government doesn't like. Nice knowing you.
Now that isn't to say you can't have a more capitalist based system, that ends up in dictatorship. Of course you can.
But with socialism, dictatorship is the natural result.