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Postmortem (Venezuela)
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| 2-13-2014
| Richard Fernandez
Posted on 02/14/2014 7:25:02 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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As always, Wretchard's article needs to be read in full (and sometimes for me, twice).
Back on topic: The mistake is to assume the good time(s) will continue indefinitely.
To: Sir Napsalot
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:34:13 AM PST
by
4Liberty
(Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
To: Sir Napsalot
Coming soon to a city near you.....
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:34:39 AM PST
by
Politically Correct
(A member of the rabble in good standing)
To: Sir Napsalot
(more excerpt):
The real damage was internal. A society can survive the loss of things, but it cannot survive without institutions or the destruction of culture. Culture is to nations what an immune system is to people. Nations under siege fall back on some atavistic condition. Thus, occupied Poland becomes more Catholic, as does Ireland, and as Egypt perhaps becomes more Muslim. They fall back on the known and the comforting. City Hall might collapse and the factory temporarily closed but if culture and identity survive these things can be reopened again. The apocalypse of Syria means that many people dont even want to reopen things any more. They hate their neighbors, individually and collectively.
Sobering and ominous.
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:38:56 AM PST
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: Sir Napsalot
Chavez, giving credit where it is due, at least had the charisma and political savvy to create the Cult of Personality. Once he passed, it was only a matter of time before things would fall apart. Maduro is nothing but a buffoon, and most Chavez supporters think of him as a joke.
That’s why regimes based on a Cult of Personality are ultimately doomed when the leader passes.....See Yugoslavia and Tito.
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:40:26 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Sir Napsalot
"The genius of the Left Chavezs for example is that it destroys things from the inside out.
They pervert religion, collapse the mores, abolish the family, shred the constitution and gradually expropriate the property. The differences from one day to the next are apparently imperceptible, but it is harder and harder to go back until finally there is no reversal of progressive gains possible at all.
The public is finally faced with the stark choice between chaos or authoritarianism. And most people will chose the Boss over the Mob."
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:44:21 AM PST
by
Paladin2
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To: dfwgator
F. Bastiat wrote a convincing analysis of the failure of Socialism in 1849.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15962/15962-h/15962-h.htm
Had anyone learned from that, imagine the number of unnecessary deaths during the 20th century alone.
Oh, but the right people have not tried this yet? // sarcasm
May God help the U.S. now.
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:47:27 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
(Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:54:46 AM PST
by
Slyfox
(We want our pre-existing HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
To: dfwgator; All
ok..I'll say it, i hope pResident 0'Muslim gets AID$;
he deserves it, let his "cult of personality" collapse.
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:56:08 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: Sir Napsalot
The apocalypse of Syria means that many people dont even want to reopen things any more. They hate their neighbors, individually and collectively.How utterly sad that you can see this happening right here in America.
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:57:50 AM PST
by
Obadiah
(I Like Ted.)
To: dfwgator
Thats why regimes based on a Cult of Personality are ultimately doomed when the leader passes.....See Yugoslavia and Tito.Didn't happen in North Korea when Kim il-Jung assumed room temperature. And Castro has been out of power for a few years,
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posted on
02/14/2014 8:17:22 AM PST
by
AU72
To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
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posted on
02/14/2014 8:31:36 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Sir Napsalot
We should send Sean Penn and Danny Glover down there to help.
I crack me up.
5.56mm
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posted on
02/14/2014 8:35:11 AM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: F15Eagle
Brazil is becoming Argentina, Argentina is becoming Venezuela, and Venezuela is becoming Zimbabwe.
And America is coming up strong from the back.
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posted on
02/14/2014 8:35:20 AM PST
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Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
Venezuela was my ‘escape country’.
I am so screwed.
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posted on
02/14/2014 8:36:15 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: Obadiah
"How utterly sad that you can see this happening right here in America."
Who wants to open a business in Detroit, Chicago, LA......?
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posted on
02/14/2014 8:40:50 AM PST
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Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Lazamataz
I thought you was going to Finland?
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posted on
02/14/2014 8:46:08 AM PST
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Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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