[RayChuang88]

Argentina and Brazil should be economic superpowers in South America. But their embrace of Socialist policies will ruin them in the long run.

[henkster]

Once upon a time Argentina was a prosperous country.

[Obadiah]

It is absolutely staggering to me that anyone on the planet still harbors any sense of interest in Socialism. I can think of no example where Socialism has not utterly destroyed everything in its wake. And yet people will say, yeah, well look at Sweden and Norway. Pffft... Yes, they have some Socialist policies, but they are predominantly capitalistic in practice.

Socialism apparently has this siren song that is hard to resist where everyone believes a fairy tail that all will be bliss, everything will be free, and no one will lack for anything.

Sadly, to some extent Argentina, and more so Brazil, could have been an economic powerhouse on a global scale, but like Venezuela, they bought into the lie from the pit of Hell, that the rich were to blame and if the political leaders simply confiscated all the wealth from “the rich” then the lazy would be set for life and their troubles would be over.

Not much different than the Democrats effort to promise a “free” living wage to everyone.