An appropriate comment from NRO’s The Corner:
Hugo Chavez has for the fourth time been invested with essentially dictatorial powers by the Venezuelan National Assembly, this time for 18 months, yet more evidence of the truth of Spengler’s observation that “Socialism is not a system of compassion, humanity, peace and kindly care, but one of will-to-power. Any other reading of it is illusory.”…
For people of the left individual humans are just so many blocks of wood; the raw material of social experimentation. Basing itself upon a materialist and determinist view of Nature, liberals (from run-of-the-mill types all the way through to out-and-out communists) believe that human evolution dictates that things will come out a certain way – and, darn it, if things don’t then they’ll just break off things until they do. Someone like Chavez buys this nonsense and wants things to come out a certain way – they don’t, and so he goes for increasingly dictatorial powers in order to try and force things through.
This is why he should have been overthrown – this is why we should still seek his over throw. He’s just a dictator and he’s ruining his country – as long as he rules, there will be no fair vote and thus no way to ascertain what the will of the people of Venezuela is…and, additionally, as long as he rules he will become an increasing threat to his neighbors as he stirs up foreign troubles to mask his domestic failures.
South America is in for a long, hard time with this man – and everyone will pay a high price because we didn’t depose him off when it was easier to do so.
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