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originally posted by: Dalamax
That’s kind of vague dude. How imminent is the near future?
a reply to: musicismagic
So let’s review the steps that have lead to this situation.
1) The Venezuelan government creates over budget projects that fail and end up causing big problems for the people due to bad planning, mismanagement and corruption.
2) They blame the problems on political opponents and even the citizens. They make it the citizen's problem to deal with through draconian laws and other measures while doing little or nothing to address the real causes of these problems. Such measures include disarming the citizens to prevent the growing public unrest from becoming an armed revolt.
3) When the crap hits the fan, the government of Venezuela increases the propaganda and blames some foreign country (the U.S.A. no less) and continues to deflect from the real source of the blame. All the while they continue to do nothing to fix the problems.
4) When things get really out of hand and the propaganda no longer works, the government brings out more lies, and gives the call to "remain calm" while they confiscate food from the people by force and redistribute it to the government, military and police.
5) With out of control inflation, supply lines broken down, and food riots the daily routine for the common citizens, the Venezuelan government turns to forced labor laws to enslave the able bodied population.
Total collapse, violent revolution, martial law, intervention by foreign powers, or invasion is all that I can see as the end results that can be expected after this point. We would be fools IMO to not believe that could happen the same way here in the U.S.