And yet they still manage to blame it on populism:
Alvaro Ybarra Zavala puts it bluntly: “Venezuela has become hell.”
The photographer had just returned from one of his latest trips to the South American nation when he talked to TIME, and he was visibly affected by the chaos he had witnessed there. “There’s a complete collapse of society,” he said.
Once an example for the continent, Venezuela is now a country in freefall.
What is scary is how we all know that one day the same will be able to be said of America. This is our path, minus the toleration for the oppression.
“It’s hard to find food, there’s no medicine,” said Ybarra Zavala. “If you have to have surgery, you need to bring everything with you: the bandages, the gloves, everything. There are no anesthetics…”
His photographs show daily street protests that are often violently repressed, empty shelves in deserted grocery stores and people lining up, sometimes for entire days, for gas. “No one believes anymore in the army, in the police, in the system,” said Ybarra Zavala.
America will be similar, but with lots of guns and pissed off people who expect a lot better. Americas K-strategists play by the rules. For now the rules are civil society. When civil society collapses and dissolves, the rules will be fight or die. Under those rules, leftists, gibsmedats, and all of those bent on taking the nation into the gutter will suddenly have to fend for themselves in a land of savages who hate them.
It’s so sad to see how a true feeling of a society has failed so much. And it shows how dangerous populism can be.”
The problem with leftists is they begin by settling on the answer which offers them the least amygdala stimulation. Then they find a justification for why every fact which points to reality actually is proof of the exact opposite.
A Socialist takes power, and implements pure leftism. Leftists the world over travel to his country to compliment him. Everybody exclaims how wonderful his leftism is. It collapses. Everyone sees it is hell. So they blame it on populism, to prove how Donald Trump will do the exact same thing in America.
There is no reasoning with the left. They are totally blind to logic.
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The basic premise of Karl Marx 1848 “Communist Manifesto” was “To each according to his needs, from each according to his means.” Ignoring the impossibility of implementing this in a classless society without resorting to outright theft let me examine means and especially needs.
There are three needs, food, water and protection from the elements and predators. The biggest predator being Government. All else are luxuries. The political opportunists substitute wants for needs and appeal to envy to implement egalitarianism to make all equal by redistribution of resources by force. This creates a fertile environment for corruption with each competing for ever decreasing resources and the “Rule of Law” degenerates into might makes right. This is why our owners want people control misnamed weapons control.
Of the three needs food is the leading contender for shortages with phosphorous and/or diesel fuel causing shortages of production of food in accordance with Liebig’s Law. Liebig’s Law, “Growth is limited by the scarcest resource, not by the total amount of resources,” For plant growth the scarcest resource is phosphorous. No North American fertilizer company can achieve vertical integration because they have to import some Phosphorus.
Seventy percent of the world’s phosphorous reserves are located in Morocco, twenty percent of the world’s oil in Saudi Arabia. Morocco is a Sunni Kingdom so far friendly to the West. From the standpoint of the Worlds food supply Morocco is the most important county on the planet. The depletion of phosphorous will cause the world’s food and population to decrease on some form of Seneca Cliff to what can be supported by permaculture.
The other entity causing the return to permaculture (excluding extinction) is the depletion of diesel fuel. Diesel fuel can only by be made from crude oil of certain specific gravities. It cannot be made from tight, light oil or the oil sands tar. Volumes and BTU (British Thermal Units) are irreverent since BTU value of gasoline and diesel are much closer than the 106,000hp developed by the Also gasoline engines are 25 to 30% efficient vs. 50% for diesel.
Until the invention of the internal combustion engine gasoline was a waste product dumped in the rivers (before EPA). Gasoline engines eliminated a waste product, provided employment for millions but provide vehicles that basically run around in circles. All the heavy lifting was done by diesel. Industrial agriculture is totally dependent on diesel as well as the military and most transportation of bulk goods.
All the largest diesel engine and the largest practical gasoline engine. Also gasoline engines are 25Until the invention of the internal combustion engine gasoline was a waste product dumped in the rivers (before EPA). Gasoline engines eliminated a waste product, provided employment for millions but provide vehicles that basically run around in circles. All the heavy lifting was done by diesel. Industrial agriculture is totally dependent on diesel as well as the military and most transportation of bulk goods. to 30% efficient vs. 50% for diesel.
Until the invention of the internal combustion engine gasoline was a waste product dumped in the rivers (before EPA). Gasoline engines eliminated a waste product, provided employment for millions but provide vehicles that basically run around in circles. All the heavy lifting was done by diesel. Industrial agriculture is totally dependent on diesel as well as the military and most transportation of bulk goods.
It takes Mother Earth millions of years to make crude oil that can be used to make diesel. This is the real reason for the push to get diesel cars extinct. Flatten Out the Seneca Cliff of the depletion of phosphorous and/or diesel. With the depletion of phosphorus and/or diesel we are back to permaculture and the life style of my heritage, the Old Order Mennonites and a much smaller World population.
Very Interesting.
“There is no reasoning with the left. They are totally blind to logic.”
Or completely dishonest. They pretend not to understand.
We assume that, because the idea of them not seeing things seems impossible. But I suspect a lot literally can’t handle the data in their brain – their amygdala would overload. That is key, because fighting on is futile, while manipulating the other using their defective circuitry against them could be very useful.