Electing politicians because they promise you goodies is like taking candy from a stranger. They are nice to the camera, but other times socialists are often terrible people to be around.
The problem is that the masses ususally have to go through socialism and get shot out the other end to know what it is.
Socialism is on the rise.
Sucks to be us. :(
Seems like the French, Italians and Germans run everything I to the ground down there.
They deserve what they get. They will suffer.....and NEVER know why.
It won’t any better for them than it has for us.
What’s the worry?
We have seen how well this sort of regime has worked in Venezuela.
No problemo, asi?
Such people generally vote socialist.
I thought Chilean citizens learned their lesson back in the 1970s with Allende. I still remember the photo of him hunkered down in the Presidential Mansion, with a helmet and sub machine gun, when the citizens and army came for him with blood in their eye.
Where are Dick Nixon, Hank Kissinger and Pinochet
when you need them?
I know that what I am about to say will draw some eyebrows higher.. But I have been around a very long time and watched this country in thick and as now, very thin..
I have also watched, as an interested observer, the world go through many swings of ideological shifts, always emerging to the left of the previous positions..
The only incidents that drew the world to reflect on the course they drift is WAR, WORLD WAR to be precise.. The World needs a WAR, a major war that will shake the foundation of governments to their cores and draw all people to put things back into perspective..
A World financial crisis might do the same thing.. We need to allow the Financial Community to Rumble and Shake out all the shit, that we have covered for, over the last 40 odd years.. If we emerge, and that is an IF, we will be better for it, perhaps for another generation or two..
You’d think with basket case Argentina next door they would know better.
It surprises that that with all the socialists (and “Christian Democrats” allied with the socialist) that have mostly ruled Chile since Pinochet left (all except for the outgoing President who is from the right), that the country is in such good shape.
Clearly Chilean socialists are are cooler and less spicy than the South American standard. I don’t think we’re dealing with Chavez style COMMUNUSTS in this case. Still not good though.
People will vote for their own executioners if they promise to give them a cookie first.
Ofcourse, it won't be long before the middle class find out that they are who the socialists consider to be the 'rich', but by then it is too late.
did South America really need another Venezuela or Argentina?
I have always been skeptical about that claim.
Chile's GDP per capita is the best in Latin America.
However, internationally, Chile is ranked below many eastern European countries like Greece and Poland.
And compared to true free market countries like Hong Kong and Singapore, Chile's GDP is almost 70% lower.
It sure isn't working out very well here in the USA.
Santa Claus. Santa Claus will win over hard work most every time.
So I guess the libertarians building their own “Galt’s Gulch” in Chile are going to be a mite disappointed?