Socialism, Venezuela, Ocasio-Cortez
Venezuela and Socialism
This article from the New York Times is
heart-rending. It describes what happens when socialism completely destroys a
country. It should be read by all who promote the creeping left wing socialism
in our country that is seen as being of benefit to Americans.
Socialism / communism never works. NEVER. Either it is modified
to incorporate some modicum of free enterprise, as in China and in the European
social democratic countries, or it completely fails as in the old Soviet Union.
Where it exists unaltered, as in Venezuela or North Korea, it is an unmitigated
travesty.
Words fail when one researches the downfall of a once prosperous
country of over 30 million people to the horror that Venezuela has become.
These articles provide some background.
Ocasio-Cortez
and Socialism
We laugh and joke and create memes about how naïve and
air-headed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has come across in some of her recent
postures and statements. But beyond the “bless her hearts” and condescension looms
a deadly serious point of fact – Ocasio-Cortez, and many of her millennial
cohorts don't seem to have a clue as to the historical failure of
socialism-communism-Marxism-collectivism-statism, and their offshoots. They
seem to be blissfully unaware that the “socialism” brand has never worked
anywhere, at any time, and has, in fact resulted in unspeakable suffering and
death wherever it has been attempted.
Venezuela is the most recent example of the degradation
of the richest country in South America a quarter century ago to people eating
from garbage cans for sustenance right now because of unchecked “socialism”.
One can easily reference the suffering and loss of lives caused by
socialism/communism in Europe, Asia, the Soviet Union and China in the 20th century.
Some will say, “what about Nordic socialism that seems to
work so well”? Ask a Dane or Swede or Norwegian if they are socialist, and they
will laugh you out of their highly capitalist countries. They have had 70%
taxes and cradle to grave care for their hard-working and homogenous
populations, but they are strongly capitalist, rather than socialist.
There is a real danger that we can truly be
afflicted by the socialist curse, particularly when old Marxists like Bernie
Sanders take up the cause, and since many leftist beliefs concerning identity
politics, globalism, income equality dovetail so neatly with the socialist
agenda.
Ray Gruszecki
December, 2018
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