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RE: wordless amber phase

in #art • 6 years ago

@hlezama,

“Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.”

Maduro: "Countrymen ... I dream of a day when all Venezuelans will have the opportunity to eat grass ... for free! And why not? Our grass is amongst the best grass on Earth ... and it grows in the ditches. Viva la Revolución!"

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     6 years ago (edited) 

    Hahaha. Not very far from the outrageous things these bastards have seriously said.
    In this video Chavez is confronted with his own contradictions.
    In the first part he says:

    Every human being, before it is delivered, from the moment it is gestated in the womb of a mother, has the right to being fed (pause). That we all know. But it seems as if there s lack of will for that to be fulfilled.

    Then, years later, he says

    It does not matter if we walk naked, it does not matter if we don't have [money] even for food, this is about saving the revolution.

    and then they itemize the expensive articles of clothing of the allegedly humble revolutionary.

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    @hlezama,

    Venezuela, one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources, is currently paying a Stupidity Tax. Ideology, and the corruption it excuses in the name of the Ideal ... ALWAYS DESTROYS EVERYTHING.

    If governance is not PAINFULLY BORING ... you're not doing it right. Good governance requires a merciless commitment to the mundane: Filling potholes; making sure the trains run on time; and ensuring that Part No. 3401842 A is in stock ... for nations are systems of minuscule interactions and such minutia are the sinews of society.

    Once leaders decide to become 'rockstars' instead of 'ringmasters' ... you've got a problem. The more systemic problem, though, is that South America has a long-established love of Caudillos and Chavez and Maduro are merely the latest incarnations of want-to-be Bolivars.

    As Churchill once said, "People get the government they deserve."

    Quill

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       6 years ago  

      Yep. I have to give it to you, man. It has been our historical malaise.
      Proof of that is that all the contenders in the last 5 presidetial elections had been the most populist/close-to-the-people's discourse of the pack.
      This people have been bewitched, is the new mantra. No logical explanation can account for such tremendous display of collective stupidity