{"id":14450,"date":"2018-02-19T01:09:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T08:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14450"},"modified":"2018-02-19T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T08:09:06","slug":"the-venezuelan-wasteland-and-the-ignoble-savage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/02\/19\/the-venezuelan-wasteland-and-the-ignoble-savage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Venezuelan Wasteland and the Ignoble Savage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A trope of the Left is back before the eeevil KKKapitalists of Western Civilization came around, all the peace-loving persons of color were &#8220;noble savages&#8221; living twig-worshipping idyllic communal lives free from silly things like gender or any concept of self. The Left finally get to see the fruition of getting to the goal <em>via<\/em> socialism; the result is that the proverbial savage is rather&#8230; ignoble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venezuela&#8217;s economy has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/venezuelas-economic-collapse-by-the-numbers-1516294208-891b898b-1a1a-425b-87bd-c0b04228d511.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collapsed<\/a> with its non-elite citizenry being perpatually pulled in by the black hole of socialist dystopia. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20180112035017-q9adf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food riots<\/a> are becoming common, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5262257\/Starving-mob-beat-cattle-death-rocks-Venezuela.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">starving mobs<\/a> are beating cattle to death, and otherwise have to <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5124666\/venezuela-food-shortage-crisis-looting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">steal to live<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/venezuela\/article199849129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children are becoming living skeletons<\/a>. And where would such children be treated? Clearly not in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/01\/582469305\/venezuelas-health-care-system-ready-to-collapse-amid-economic-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">socialist healthcare paradise<\/a> which is about as antithetical to actual healthcare as Judaism is antithetical to National Socialism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And in this new wasteland which makes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-economy-trucks-widerimage\/mad-max-violence-stalks-venezuelas-lawless-roads-idUSKBN1FT1G9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mad Max<\/a> movies seem like utopian dreams, who is the new Lord Humungous?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div id=\"attachment_14451\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14451\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lord-Humungus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lord-Humungus.jpg 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lord-Humungus-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile&#8230; in Venezuela.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;None other than <em>de facto<\/em> El Presidente-for-life <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/01\/24\/reversal-maduro-signals-hell-stand-re-election-venezuela-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maduro<\/a>, who has effectively declared Venezuela&#8217;s elected Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-economy\/venezuelas-congress-declares-petro-cryptocurrency-illegal-idUSKBN1EY2H2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/01\/27\/shocking-not-shocking-venezuela-will-bar-opposition-parties-upcoming-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barred any real opposition<\/a> from the upcoming &#8220;elections&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unsurprisingly, Venezuelans are fleeing in increasing numbers from their hellhole wasteland to the point that neighboring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/02\/colombia-tightens-borders-venezuelan-crisis-worsens-180215102358205.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/feb\/08\/venezuela-migrants-colombia-brazil-borders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a> are trying to stop the stampede.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are only two ways of stopping this, both of which involve bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And all the while, Maduro and his Nomenklatura laugh&#8230; for now.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Venezuelan Wasteland and the Ignoble Savage\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A trope of the Left is back before the eeevil KKKapitalists of Western Civilization came around, all the peace-loving persons of color were 'noble savages' living twig-worshipping idyllic communal lives free from silly things like gender or any concept of self.  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