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June 7, 2017
Why Venezuela Matters
By David Prentice
Venezuela is one of the most unreported tragedies of our time. We can guess why: the left-leaning media are not interested in telling us what happened in Venezuela because it disproves so many of their narratives.
In a nutshell: Venezuela was once the most prosperous country in South America. It is now one of the poorer nations in the world. Food is hard to find, toilet paper is scarce, and civilization as the citizenry once knew it is gone. Venezuela's story has been one of going from first to worst, a fact the left does not want anyone to know. The socialist paradise the left inexplicably wants for the U.S. lies in tatters at the top of South America.
Venezuela matters because socialism is one of the two great political blights foisted on the world in the past century. There are multiple examples of the horrors of this system, be it Soviet socialism, the socialist killing fields of Cambodia, the rotting Euro-states, or the current and unfinished calamity of Venezuela. Socialism is a system that always promises great things for humanity but in the end is dehumanizing, destructive, and false. Dressed as an angel of light, offering equality, fairness, and goodness, socialism always seems to change clothes into the angel of death. Destruction of the human spirit becomes its normative end.
Its siren song is hard to resist. It always sounds so good. Hearing about it during the college years captures your attention and consideration. The professors espousing it seem knowledgeable, credentialed, and persuasive. Not many teach against it.
A perfect example of the effects of socialism.
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Greetings @ everitt mickey all that is true I am Venezuelan that is the hard situation that crosses my country and the regime represses the media do not show the truth of what happens the government invests in technology wants to undir the people in hunger and misery They protect themselves with their layer of dollars but the people awake and we are in the streets demanding our freedom .. And the world has to know what happens in our country ..
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the only way the world is going to know is if you tell them.
the news media certainly won't.
we don't hear anything here in the states about it on TV
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For this community I will be posting content about the situation of venezuela
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great idea.
like I said
that's the ONLY way
the news will get out.
Steemit is international...
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I did not know anything about steemit I will have an opportunity to share with everyone the reality of venezuela already enough of so much censorship and repression
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learn by doing
you're here.
just blog.
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Do it. Let the world know how it is and what it is.
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advice...worth what you're paying for it.
jazz it up. Make short, sweet, concise reports..with pictures.
figure out an angle..
"This is brian williams...and I was there..."
er..
no..not that one..
"This is mryuka...hiding under an overturned burned out car in down town caracus..bringing you this exclusive news report...
etc..
"...
or something.
get a logo
like that...or
read this book Moon is a Harsh Mistress
be careful.
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This the same fake media that told us that Obamacare was great and Hilary was going to win. America will not be free again until tje media is crushed. Donald Trump is the master at making look like hacks.
Go Trump!
The GOP is dead, long live the Republic!
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wonder how long the government lasts ?
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government is a mental disease.
when the conditions are right.
it self generates..
like wood rot.
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the stench destroys sense of smell
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Nice read... Interesting things happening around Bitcoin in Venezuela, too.
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I was born in the Soviet Union. Black and white and shades of gray childhood, pretty much, except that ice-cream was good and plentiful and they showed fun cartoons on our black and white tv...
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Their oil reserves dont look to bad either
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tey always bring up Denmark, Sweeden Norway very much market driven capitalist countries whenever someone brings up why we need socialism, they never bring up an actually socialist country like venezuela
even china is not even communist, their communist party is a capitalist industrialist party! all about making money, which is good for china as its lifting chnese out of poverty! and thank god! thank god for greeed in that instance! socalism just doesnt deliver the goods,LITERALLy the warehouse is EMPTY in socialism and theres no goods To delivery
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in Socialism you wait for the Bread.
in capitalism the bread waits on YOU.
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I personally believe that had it not been for the continuous interference in Venezuelan affairs by the United States and it's partners the country wouldn't be in anything like the state it's in now. Any country that dares to try anything different than US style capitalism is targeted. The US tried overthrowing Chavez in 2002 and failed and they've been working up to overthrowing Maduro's government ever since he became president. To suggest that Bolivarianism is failing/has failed because the idea is flawed and it could never work is ridiculous in my opinion. The United States has always attacked and destroyed nations that attempt anything similar. They cannot allow any country to set an example.
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I think you're wrong
Chavez got elected in large part due to Jimmy Carter.
everyone has opinions.
everyone has assholes.
they both stink to the other guy.
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Chavez was elected four times. The Venezuelan people have to be given some credit. I just read this article which gives a different spin on the situation. The points made about the terrible record of the US are not opinions but verifiable facts. How anyone living in the middle or lower class in the United States still believes in the 'Land of the free' bullshit is beyond me. Same goes for the citizens of other so called 'democratic' nations such as my own (UK). It's a joke
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13172
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doesn't matter.
that was then
this is now
talk to the people living there.
they don't need credit.
they need food.
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You are right. That is an excellent article, and thank you for posting it. In my reply below, I , unaware of the extent of US interference in Venezuela's affairs (although I should have checked around. It is ubiquitous) did not mention it, as the person from Venezuela I spoke with did not.
Thanks! Followed
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Nice article .Thank for sharing with us...touching ...upvoted
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I recently chatted with a Venezuelan here on Steemit. They reported that subsequent to Hugo Chavez' death, the state collapsed into greed, mismanagement, and corruption.
Hugo Chavez held it together, and it worked as well as any monarchy could, but he died. When he died the one force that kept corruption at bay was gone, and so was Venezuela's future.
It is a cautionary tale that nation's become cults of personality court a dangerous fate. We would do well to remember that, perhaps now more than ever before.
A horrible corruption has been upon our nation for some time, and it may now be removed, or in process of removal. Either Americans in public service will reverse 50 years of corrupting influence, and restore the rule of law, or we may slip, so easily from our fragile freedom, heavily invaded by surveillance and banksters, into a cult of personality that could end, not only American freedom, but the worlds.
Chaos is opportunity, and bold men walk this world. We need to be vigilant, and jealous of our rights, lest we lose them altogether.
Thanks!
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Yeah I know
the damn democrats and socialists (but I repeat myself) have really made a mess of this country
I'm hoping Trump can fix it.
I'm optimistic.
I pretty much like everything he's done.
I LOVE the way he's making the scream when he tweets.
He's playing those poor fools like a fiddle.
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I'm not sure what to make of Trump. Before he was elected he was saying a lot of things I liked and I hoped that he might change the direction the United States was going or perhaps dismantle the deep state that has been in control of the country for decades but once he took power he seemed to change. He has u-turned in such a spectaular way on so much stuff he was saying before the election that I have to ask why. I'm one of those people who think that either Trump lied to get elected and planned to do the bidding of those who pull the strings all along or he has been brainwashed or mind controlled in some way. His behavior since taking office has been odd to say the least but it is justified by idiots saying that he's insane or an egomaniac or whatever but when I saw the way he barged through the EU leaders and started preening himself or the way he walked away from Bibi Netenyahu as if he was a zombie it really does appear to me as if he is being controlled in some way. The US war machine is still rumbling along just as it was under Obama. The USA is still operating illegally in Syria and funding terrorists to overthrow the government, the USA is still arming Saudi and giving it's support to the destruction of Yemen as well as operating covertly in many countries to ensure that the USA remains the dominant world power. What has Trump done to change any of this? Nothing in my opinion and it doesn't appear as if he is going to. Perhaps he is biding his time and making his enemies think they have won before he plays his master stroke but I'm not holding my breath. I hope he is playing the fools like fiddles but he had better show his hand soon or it will be too late.
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Scroll WAY back on my blog. I wrote a rather lengthy article about why he got elected.
(complete with movies and pictures)
TL;DR version is that he didn't win.
Hilliary lost.
For example. I didn't vote for Trump...I voted AGAINST Hilliary....
about 65 million other people did the same.
Trump did NOT expect to get elected.
He was embedded in the Republican Convention by the Democrats..they gave hime 3Billion dollars in free advertising to win the nomination.
then when he did...he was supposed to lose to hilliary.
She had it rigged nine ways from sunday..
He was supposed to lose.
but he didn't.
The Man grows into the office..they say.
He is.
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