And if they approve the one that has been presented to them for a vote - a farrago of open radicalism and general incoherence - then the country is on its way to becoming the next Venezuela.
To peruse this singular document is to realize that every new beneficent-sounding guarantee of a so-called right is nothing more or less than a pushy claim by the government on yet another aspect of every citizen’s life. May the Chilean people give serious thought to what happened to Venezuela under Chávez, whose prodigious pledges to his people were drawn from the same well as the ridiculous “rights” enumerated in Chile’s proposed compact. On September 4, may good sense, historical memory, and love of freedom overcome what seems to be an all too widespread human credulousness in the presence of preposterous progressive promises.
I certainly hope the Chilean people don't adopt this dangerous and idiotic document.
"Just remember, mis compatriotas: nobody's going to save you this time, if you choose poorly."
That's the problem with commies, no matter how many you kill there's always more.
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Very much like gnats.
ReplyDeleteWe know what happened to Venezuela, but do the Chilean rank and file really know? Or are they being gulled with grandiose promises of utopia, just like the Venezuelans were?
ReplyDeleteChile has had such a good, long run of economic strength and comparatively good quality of life - much of that, perhaps ironically, due to the adoption by the Pinochet government of Chicago School economics - that one would hope that the citizenry would be immune to the blandishments of socialism, specially of the Venezuelan variety. But maybe it's like with Trump, in this country: the Left has marched through the institutions, and their universities have been churning out radicals, and there are no doubt people who will cut off their noses to spite their faces because many of the sound economic policies that have benefitted the country originated under a former leader who is now reviled. Mrs. Paco's family experienced a strong dose of Marxism under Allende, when they were ultimately forced to flee the country. Maybe those who weren't able to flee have forgotten. It seems that almost every generation has to learn from scratch.
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