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I’m Joseph Klein.

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leftward towards Chavez style Democratic Socialism,
let’s remember how their ideas worked for

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Venezuela.

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As we see the American Left fail to recognize
their mistakes and move further and further

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mismanagement was, but that’s an utterly
ignorant analysis considering much of the

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free market criticism of Socialism is based
on how its poor incentive structure causes

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mismanagement.

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Some pundits like Jon Oliver have tried to
claim Socialism was not the problem in Venezuela,

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The Huffington Post, Mic.com, The Independent,
and the openly socialist Jacobin Magazine.

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the Venezuelan project, as have writers for
left-wing media operations such as The Nation,

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New York University, the Council on Hemispheric
Affairs, and Global Exchange have all praised

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relations with Venezuela if Chavez were to
be replaced in a coup.

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In 2002, 16 US congressmen wrote a letter
to then president Bush asking him to end diplomatic

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Left-wing political non-profits such as The
North American Congress on Latin America at

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Famed left-wing documentarian Michael Moore
praised Chavez after his death for “eliminating

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75 percent of extreme poverty” and “[providing]
free health and education for all.”

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president Nicolas Maduro.”

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After Chavez’s death, Penn described also
him as a “great hero” and a “friend”

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and that “Venezuela and its revolution will
endure under the proven leadership of vice

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things for the 80% of the people that are
very poor there.”

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Actor Sean Penn met with Chavez on numerous
occasions and said he had done “incredible

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Director Oliver Stone called Chavez a “great
hero” and directed a pro-Chavez film titled

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South of the Border.

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the Venezuelan parliament where he praised
Chavez’s policies.

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Famed activist and former presidential candidate
Jesse Jackson went to Venezuela to speak before

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VENEZUELA…, where incomes are actually more
equal today.”

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American dream is more apt to be realized
in South America, in places such as…

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In 2011, Bernie Sanders published an article
on his website that said “These days, the

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Back then Venezuela’s poverty rate was 55%;
today, it is almost 90%.

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since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1998.

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and influential swaths of the American left
have supported the Venezuelan socialist project

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Despite Venezuela being the biggest tragedy
in the Western Hemisphere at the moment, large

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leading prisoners to become cannibals.

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citizens to resort to breaking into the zoo
to eat the themselves starving animals, and

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average Venezuelan has lost 24 pounds in the
last year due to lack of food, leaving desperate

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Venezuelans are starving and dying.

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40,000% hyperinflation has destroyed the economy.

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Life is so bad that basic medications like
anti-biotics are no longer available and the