A Resident’s Look at “Progressive” Venezuela

A really powerful video of an American talking with his friend in Venezuela about the day-to-day life in the failed state.

Personally I think if I lived there I WOULD be angry and bitter. Hell I live in “Progressive” Massachusetts which is a utopia compared to Venezuela and I’m angry and bitter about how bad it is here.

Just my thoughts.

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4 Responses to A Resident’s Look at “Progressive” Venezuela

  1. Miguel says:

    This is gonna sound harsh, but they are living what they deserve. When Chavez was given a pardon for his coup attempt, enabling him to run for office, many people warned that he would not only win but he would turn the country socialist. The warnings were laughed by those who said the dooming words: “That would never happen here.” He got elected and turned the country socialist and eventually Neo Communist.
    Now under Maduro, an idiot whose qualifications for government are that he was a bus driver but raised through the ranks due to constant political butt-licking, life has gone from really bad to downright hell as he is governing like a Latin version of Stalin.
    Venezuelans are not looking for freedom, at least not the concept of freedom like we have in the US; they are looking to have the government boot removed from their throats and possibly moved to the testicles. Yes it hurts, but it won’t kill you or at least not right away.

    • Weerd Beard says:

      Yeah I got a double-take from Gay Cynic at the NRA show. He, I, Jay, and Too Old To Work were talking about the last Boston Mayor’s race. GC asked why we didn’t find some pro-gay, pro-drugs Libertarian to run 3rd party in the race and offseat the weak Democrat and Republican Candidates (even tho the race was non-party, it was a Democrat vs. a Republican just by chance I guess).

      My response was “Some people just WANT to live in a cage”. His eyes practically bugged out of his head, and he looked around at all the other Massholes in the car, and was surprised to see us all nodding.

      • Miguel says:

        Freedom is scary… it implies responsibility and adult hood.

      • The_Jack says:

        Also note in the video the implications that Venezuela was always poor and third world, just not this dysfunctional.

        A good example is that the guy’s complaint is that the food lines are slow and people are smuggling the subsudized goods. And not so much that the previous exist in the first place.

        When history shows that pre revolution the country was quite prosperous, especially relative to it’s neighbors. But that’s one of the first things the regime does, make sure people forget what things were like before they came in.

        See Cuba. Yes the island wasn’t unicorns under Batista, but there was not the crushing poverty and there was a considerable expat community, see Havana.

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