[super-serial]

History remembers the winners - so even though I actually agree with what you're saying about US government economic warfare, the end result was the Venezuelan government turned to shit. It's become oppressive, their policies have failed and now their society is crumbling and people are suffering.

If Venezuela's form of socialism was working so well, then it should have sustained itself no matter what the US did. Instead it was supported by oil money, and as soon as the oil dollars were cut off it collapsed because there was nothing revolutionary or innovative about it. I'll be voting for Andrew Yang this primary because I like the idea of UBI and a social safety net and how he's planning to implement his policies. I think that form of 21st century socialism might work - the form that Venezuela chose just led to cronyism and oppression.

[erikpukinskis]

> If Venezuela's form of socialism was working so well, then it should have sustained itself no matter what the US did

Good domestic policy makes you impervious to interference by foreign powers with 40x your GDP?

I don’t get it, what’s the logic there?

[super-serial]

Startup logic... anyone can take on Google or Amazon if their ideas are innovative and good enough.

[idDriven]

I think you forgot funding. That's kinda important.