Venezuela New Way Politics Or Same Old

[life on mars]

I'm sure outside forces effect South American countries however the brutal nature of their own people upon each other is astonishing, and the socialist programmes which have been applauded by some dont seem to reduce that behaviour, or poverty and even deploy extreme contolling mechanisms, you look at these countries right or left and I thank god I was born British for all its faults .

[Eric Cartman]

I'm sure outside forces effect South American countries however the brutal nature of their own people upon each other is astonishing, and the socialist programmes which have been applauded by some dont seem to reduce that behaviour, or poverty and even deploy extreme contolling mechanisms, you look at these countries right or left and I thank god I was born British for all its faults .

It isn't really any different here, we just started from a far higher position due to us 'absorbing' other countries wealth for years and years. We are similarly a country where everyday working folk are increasingly getting shat on by people that adopt positions of power simply to feather their own nests. Blaming the ideas that underpin 'socialism' (which you may or may not be doing, but many commentators have) for acts of immense greed (30% of Venezuela's oil revenue disappearing into a few people's pockets) is like blaming a gun for shooting somebody. It is as though we are acknowledging that as human's we can't possibly be nice to each other so let's not even try.