When Bernie Sanders
appeared in Wichita, Kansas a week ago he said, “ideas once considered to be
radical are now part of the mainstream.”
Alongside him on the
dais was the Democrat Party’s “Next Big Thing”.
A Bronx Bolshevik who has been toasted on the Sunday talk shows, is making
videos with Bernie and running around the country on a breathless endorsement
tour.
Alexandria Ocasio
Cortez credits her primary win over New York Democrat Joe Crowley, who was
expected to succeed Nancy Pelosi as Democrat leader of the House, to the
efforts of the George Soros-backed BrandNewCongress.org and Justice Democrats.
The policies of Justice
Democrats include: securing a living
wage tied to inflation, enacting a federal jobs guarantee, healthcare as a
right, tuition-free public colleges, law enforcement reform, abolishing ICE and
enacting common sense gun regulation.
Socialism
polls brilliantly with the core Democrat base of angry government workers,
angry college students, angry welfare recipients and San Francisco
eco-billionaires who keep all their money in Caribbean banks.
The
Democrats are no longer sure of the difference between whatever it is they
believe and socialism. That’s because they have no ideas other than resisting
Trump and hating Republicans.
Now I know some trolls
on the Left will read this and be tempted to post their defiance of the opinions
expressed in the comment section here.
So, for them I will cite a source they can scarcely rebut.
As Venezuela’s economy crumbles, daily life has become a
constant struggle, consisting of waiting in line for food and stretching a
minuscule wage that each day buys fewer goods.
The country's monthly minimum wage of 1,307,000 bolívars —
around $6.03 on the black market — is enough for two cartons of eggs, a kilo
(about 2.2 pounds) of cornmeal and a box of pasta, or two liters of milk, four
cans of tuna and a loaf of bread.
Venezuela sits on the world’s largest oil reserve and was
once one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries. But as hyperinflation
continues to rise to levels not seen anywhere in the world, money loses more
and more value.
Venezuela’s crisis can be traced back to Hugo Chávez, who
was elected in 1998 on a promise to share the country’s oil wealth with the
poor.
He relied heavily on oil revenues to fund his “21st Century
Socialism,” agenda, importing goods and selling them at subsidized prices to
make things more affordable.
But when oil prices collapsed around 2014, Venezuela had
little savings to fall back on. Since then, the government has cut imports and
used its small reserves to pay its foreign debt and avoid default. This has
turned into a crisis, with shortages in everything from medicine to food.
Billions disappeared
from the economy due to cronyism, with Transparency International naming
Venezuela one of the most corrupt countries in the world. The socialist utopia
has transformed into a failed country.
The Venezuelan people rummage
in stinking piles of rubbish for rotten cabbage leaves, desiccated limes and
scraps of fetid meat. Zoos have been forced
to slaughter animals to feed their starving population and dozens of desperate
men were filmed this year shouting “we are hungry” as they surrounded cattle
and beat them to death with stones for the meat.
The only part of socialism
its intellectually bankrupt adherents enjoy are the freebies.
The late British Prime
Minister, Margaret Thatcher noted, “The problem with socialism is that you
eventually run out of other people’s money.”
History tells us that
even before they run out of money, the socialists will run out of sanity.
