Posted on 05/03/2023 7:34:05 AM PDT by rktman
There's a socialist wave in Latin America. Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil recently elected leftists.
These politicians at least distance themselves from thugs like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, but all propose socialism-lite policies giving government more control over more people.
Why don't people in Latin America learn from the mistakes of the past? Gloria Alvarez, a social media star from Guatemala, is running for president of her country to try to educate people about the damage socialism does.
People do need educating.
"It's like Stockholm syndrome," says Alvarez in my new video. "When you ask people, 'Who should take care of health, education, football, arts, whatever?' They always answer, 'government.' How are you going to not have corruption if you leave everything in the hands of the government?"
Alvarez's campaign is based on social media. Her TikTok announcing her campaign garnered 1.5 million views.
I'd like to think I taught her how to do that. Alvarez was once a Stossel TV Fellow. I'm hiring another now.
We helped Alvarez make a video about socialism that got a remarkable 15 million views.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
That’s a fact.
Socialism has taken root to our South.
It’s very popular among the people.
Not PC: uneducated and poorly educated like the sound of it. Socialism does have a seductive ring if you see yourself in the bottom wrungs of the socio economic class system.
America's best foreign aid is not money. It's leading by example. That's by having domestic policies that encourage capitalism, employment for all people, a roaring economy, and a constantly improving standard of living for all people.
Well, some people can’t figure out that if you elect capitalists, you won’t suddenly become as prosperous as the USA in four years. So they get disappointed and go right back to the old way of doing things.
Apparently it never dawns on them that the head cheeses live in the lap of luxury while they are “sustaining”. 🤔🖕 socialism and democommunisim.
Presidente Bukele of El Salvador had his country out of debt in 5 years. He’s criticized for being heavy handed. Refers to himself as the coolest dictator.
It would be nice if there was an American political party that was dedicated to defeating Socialists, but that party doesn't seem to exist.
Certainly not the GOP.
Latin American leader use the activities of the CIA after WW2 to stir up hatred of capitalism. It goes back even further for some. Augusto César Sandino’s hatred of the U.S. dates back to Taft/Roosevelt. It’s easy to use a company like United Fruit to brainwash people into believing capitalism is bad, therefore socialism is good.
“We have two different Latin Americas, the ‘moochers and looters’ that Ayn Rand defined in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’” and then the “60 million Latin Americans who voted with their feet and live in the United States.
And soon they’ll vote for the Equity the “Progressive “ democrats preach.
Bttt.
5.56mm
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" sounds eminently fair, until you realize that some tyrannical bureaucrat gets to decide what you need and what can be taken from you.
May it be taking land from Mexico, over throwing a true democratically elected government and supporting a dictator in Chile, back stabbing the Argentinians in the Falkland war where we backed the UK, having a bunch of dictators on the CIAs payroll, a war on drugs which panders to populist national politics but where we pressure other governments to cooperate... In Nicaragua we overthrew the government twice in a matter of 12 years.
I do not agree with commies and they tend to run a country into the ground, but nonetheless, this government was elected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat Ironically, many of the things Allende did are not to far off from what we are doing ourselves today - de facto socialized health care, education, massive expansion of our food stamp and public school lunch programs... Ultimately, we got rid of him because he screwed with big business, i.e. the US mining operations in Chile.
On a personal level many folks to our South like us. Sure, there are some that will hold a grudge, but for the most part, the people are smart enough to separate the actions of our government from the citizen. Many have family in the US. Many folks from here retire in Guatemala, Belize, Mexico. Many folks there come here for business or health care and education. In some communities, they are kept afloat by the money sent home by their children working in the US. Of course there is massive movement south for leisure with places like Mexico and Costa Rica being the primary destinations.
However, our short sighted policies which are amoral at best and sometimes violent, self declared lordship over this entire continent while we talk about “sovereignty” elsewhere when convenient (Monroe doctrine which while we do not talk about is still basically what we go by), the treatment by our government for some of their people... Many folks to our South do not like our government, not even in Mexico. The term “Gringo” is not a term of endearment.
***Poverty, crime, lack of opportunity, and oppression, make for fertile ground for anyone offering an alternative, may that be a Nazi, commie, khomeini, Qaddafi... ***
Even in the US during the great depression and its aftermath the commie and Nazi parties were highly popular (we just do not like to remember that). When people are pushed down, hungry, and fear for their life, they want something different and if it’s bad enough, and lasts long enough, they don’t care if it’s under a red flag or with brown shirts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_in_the_Americas. Many celebrities and industrialists were part of this movement, to include Lindbergh and Ford.
Sadly, what these people do not realize is that when you support these whack-jobs, what follows is just as bad if not worse than before, examples: Castro, Chavez...
ROFL!!!
Yeah ... highly educated "intellectuals" like the sound of socialism, too.
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