Dear Friends,
It seems to me, Venezuela is the poster child for socialism. Hugo Chavez was elected to office to bring about socialism in the most wealthy South American nation. His party has overseen the destruction of the Venezuelan economy, the collapse of the oil infrastructure and mass starvation. Obviously, there is equality in outcome for the people. Not for the politicians of course, they live like kings, as the people eat their own dogs and cats. Toilet paper is no where to be found, and the zoos have been emptied of animals, to feed the starving people, but at least the Hollywood celebrities, who backed the revolution, can rest easy at night knowing that there are no wealthy people in Venezuela… only hungry, destitute and oppressed people, in other words… utopia.
Socialism always has the same results. Like any road. It takes you to the same place every time you get on it. That is the utility of a road, it reliably takes you where you want to go, every time. Socialism is the same. Every nation that has ever got on the road of socialism, has ended up in the same place, famine, oppression and want for the people, but wealth beyond anyone’s wildest dreams for the politicians. Who would deny the politicians their solid gold toilet? Don’t they have a right to excrete? Why would anyone begrudge the politician’s mansions and luxury when they work so hard to make everyone equal? Well, everyone but themselves. Just because the people is starving, why shouldn’t the politicians get the best food? It is only fair.
All the great famines where millions of people starved to death were the result of socialism. Stalin’s artificially created famines were a godsend to the people of the Soviet Union. The population would have grown out of proportion had Stalin not taken the food from the Ukraine and sold it. Imagine how many more people would be on Earth today, if He hadn’t had the forethought, to starve to death between six and fifteen million people? Mao one upped Stalin by making a real stand against overpopulation by starving to death around thirty million Chinese people. Now there was a man who was willing to make a stand against overpopulation! Obviously Mao, being the fat bastard he was, ate like a king, but why quibble about the deaths of a few tens of millions of people when Mao was hungry?
Socialism, while a disaster for the people, is a windfall for the politicians. Maduro in Venezuela has all the toilet paper he needs, lives in a mansion and eats nothing but the best food. The nation he rules with an iron fist is a dumpster fire for the people, but his cronies live like kings… as it should be. So the people have to eat their own dogs, there are too many dogs in Venezuela anyway. Progressives in the US love the legacy of Hugo Chavez. Now only the politicians live like kings, and no one has to worry someone else is making more than them, just because they merit it. Venezuela has done away with the gulf between the rich and the poor. Because the rich have left and only the poor live there. So everyone is equally suffering, well, everyone but the politicians and generals.
I have to give it to modern socialists, they don’t let a little thing like the deaths of millions of people, stand in the way of their dreams of a one world socialist authoritarian government. Many people might be dissuaded by the weight of the human suffering socialism has brought into the world. Today’s progressive socialists are made of hardier stuff! They look at Venezuela and see beauty. So the stolen oil infrastructure is crumbling from lack of investment, so the people are starving, and so what that the people are oppressed… American progressives love it! Venezuelans must be much happier, not being burdened with plenty to eat, the stress of freedom and cuddling a beloved dog. Those worries have been lifted from them! Progressives who backed Hugo must be so proud of that utopia.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
