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    What's wrong with socialism?

    ‘This Is Only a Nightmare’: Venezuelans Have Sobering Advice for Americans Who Support Democratic Socialism


    Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gained large support during the 2016 presidential election. The self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist campaigned heavily on big government programs like free college and universal health care.

    In documentarian Ami Horowitz's latest short film, he contrasted Americans' view of socialism with Venezuelans' reality of socialism.

    When Horowitz asked Americans, “What's wrong with socialism?” many of them responded with “nothing.”
    http://ijr.com/2017/03/828588-nightm...tic-socialism/




    A woman invited anyone in America who wants socialism to come for a visit. She told Horowitz:

    “They would have to live what we are living so they can see for themselves that nothing is good. So they see this is only a nightmare for us, a terror.”





    As the film ends, an American woman shares her view of socialism:

    “They're one of the most productive, their people are the happiest, they have the least amount of crime and violence. There's nothing wrong with it in my eyes.”
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5.56NATO View Post

    As the film ends, an American woman shares her view of socialism:

    “They're one of the most productive, their people are the happiest, they have the least amount of crime and violence. There's nothing wrong with it in my eyes.”
    then with her american passport, she boards an airplane back to the good old usa. walmart, whole foods walgreens, gap, amazon, the list goes on. rarely any shortages or "bread on friday only" stores here.

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    "What's wrong with socialism?"

    Margaret Thatcher summed it up nicely: "Eventually, you run out of other people's money".

    Telling the truth is treason in an empire of lies.

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    Yeah, i mean even Russia gave it up while the Chicoms barely hangs onto power, with massive riots every week that never make the news and are suppressed brutally by the PLA. Look at the success story that is Cuba, or take venezuela for example, shining examples of a workers paradise. It's not enough that millions leapt to freedom when they got the chance to leave the slavery they suffered in eastern Europe and are today afraid of its return, they must be wrong and stupid to not want socialism.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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