You would think as the richest country in the world we wouldn’t have a need for capitalism anymore, but hey, let’s make the rich even richer! Meanwhile, people are dying from inaccessible healthcare, starvation, unsanitary living conditions, (etc.) in, again, the richest country in the world. Unfortunately, even with the endless amount of information on the internet, people still believe what career politicians and the rich tell them, too lazy or too unbothered to look up something that sounds questionable. Could it be that they don’t even question it in the first place because any other option is “wrong”?

For example, a popular argument against socialism or even democratic socialism (because the people who are making these claims don’t know the difference between the two) is that America cannot convert to a socialist economy because of what it did to Venezuela. As stated, the internet is a great tool to learn what actually happened and why socialism was not the cause. For two decades, our CIA manipulated and sabotaged Venezuela’s government and economy. Don’t even say, “That’s not true, our government would never do that.” Because well, for starters, they admitted to it, along with how Venezuela was not the only country that they had directives to destabilize their governments or economies. It doesn’t take too much searching to find that Venezuela was in massive debt (don’t even, the debt was there before socialism was introduced). Perez was very reliant on trading oil as the main source of income for the economy. Long story short, Venezuela payed off a huge chunk of debt and then the oil prices dropped drastically. The only part socialism played in this is with the press. Many people in Venezuela were well aware of the corruption in the country due to the reworking of how articles and stories could be published, with more government transparency. However, nothing had been done and businesses were unwilling to sell food, medicine, etc. to citizens due to the unstable economy and social status. However, with all of the conservative talk of how government is bad and I want to know everything the government is doing, I fail to see how a socialist principle based press model is a bad thing. Now, Venezuela is not somewhere you want to be because of the things that followed (which you can look up yourselves, GOOGLE IS FREE).

I am entertaining the probable fact that many who reply to this, likely have not looked anything up and are just upset because “y r u a liberal scum” or “well trump says this” or “I don’t believe this because \[..insert emotion based opinion here..\]”.

Oh, btw, in case you weren’t aware, our climate is dying! I get you won’t live to see it be destroyed and you got to live your full life breathing clean air. Younger generations may be coming to a time where clean air is hard to come by, nobody wants to get old and be full of resentment because their parents did nothing and were just… content with our planet dying.