{"id":13338,"date":"2017-04-26T07:53:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2017-04-26T07:53:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:53:04","slug":"venezuela-turning-in-a-widening-gyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/04\/26\/venezuela-turning-in-a-widening-gyre\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Turning in a Widening Gyre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13339\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/venezuela-second-coming.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/venezuela-second-coming.jpg 418w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/venezuela-second-coming-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Much like the proverbial falcon no longer hearing the call of the falconer, Venezuela has ceased to be able to hear the call of sanity and rationality. In other words, in Venezuela, things are falling apart, the center does not hold, and merest anarchy has loosed upon Venezuelans&#8217; world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Socialist death squads have loosed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2017\/04\/socialist-death-squads-rule-venezuela.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blood-dimmed tide<\/a> against which innocent protesters, in that <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/04\/15\/death-toll-mounts-among-venezuelan-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cherished ceremony<\/a> non-violent protest in all its democratic innocence, are <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/2017\/04\/22\/12-dead-overnight-in-caracas-as-venezuela-explodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drowned by an orgy<\/a> of state-sanctions violence, where the only safety is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/many-poor-venezuelans-are-too-hungry-to-join-antigovernment-protests-1492680607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandon any conviction<\/a> of a better life in order to merely survive, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/04\/19\/venezuelan-president-arm-nearly-half-million-militia-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passionate intensity<\/a> of the well armed\u2014and fed\u2014storm troopers of a rather new nationalist socialism rages in the streets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <em>second coming<\/em> of promised prosperity\u2014now long forgotten\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/04\/20\/venezuela-seizes-general-motors-plant-property-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arising<\/a> from the nationalization of other people&#8217;s property by the proletarian <em>Spiritus Mundi<\/em> gazing blankly and pitilessly as the <a href=\"http:\/\/fox40.com\/2017\/04\/21\/venezuela-only-has-10-billion-left-in-reserves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">darkness of poverty<\/a>\u2014now that they have run out of other people&#8217;s money\u2014drops down while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2017-04-20\/caracas-on-knife-edge-as-protesters-erect-makeshift-barricades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indignant reel<\/a> of what few brave protesters remain behind their barricades cast their shadow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venezuela has become a socialist hell\u2014a promised new Bethlehem thither <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/693411\/venezuelas-socialist-hell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slouches the rough beast<\/a> of Maduro, vexed to nightmare in socialism&#8217;s rocking cradle by now Earth-rotting Hugo Chavez, his hour come round at last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venezuela\u2014a second coming&#8230; but of what?<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Venezuela Turning in a Widening Gyre\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Much like the proverbial falcon no longer hearing the call of the falconer, Venezuela has ceased to be able to hear the call of sanity and rationality.  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In other words, in Venezuela, things are falling apart, the center does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/04\/26\/venezuela-turning-in-a-widening-gyre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[19,65,24,35,48],"class_list":["post-13338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-leviathan","tag-rip","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13341,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions\/13341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}