OK, here's how this works: Socialists buy votes with promises of free stuff. Gullible people who can't think further than next week, don't care about the math, or can't muster the personal character to avoid being accomplices to theft, support it. They're egged on by envy and vilification of the productive. Socialists then concentrate power and money in the hands of the State. When the economy crumbles, socialists then use the crisis they created as an excuse to control virtually every aspect of life. And now, in the latter stages of this in Venezuela, the State issues a compulsory "fatherland card." Big Brother has arrived. Meantime, socialists in Hollywood, Congress and American academia say nothing. You won't find them demonstrating in front of the Venezuelan embassy. Socialism's millions of victims in Venezuela will get no voice or sympathy from these state-worshipers. What an attractive philosophy this socialism is! NOT.
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