Sunday, October 23, 2016
I take it back
Earlier I sort of halfway praised Venezuela's fantastically stupid Maduro. At least he was permitting a recall referendum. Now I have to take back the slight praise. Maduro is behaving in proper USA STRONG fashion, canceling the referendum.
Leave aside all the usual crap about socialism and democracy. It's just Nature. Call it engineering or biology. A complicated machine or plant or animal survives because of negative feedback. When feedback is nonexistent or blocked, the machine or living creature dies.
Same with an organization, whether political or economic. People need food and dignity. A country can't survive when most of its people are starving and unemployed and dead. A sane chief understands that his own power can't continue when the organization ceases to exist, and finds a way to fix problems before they reach terminal condition.
Maduro is not a sane chief, or more precisely he is not a chief at all. He is accustomed to a globalist system that narrows each country down to one single resource. Graybill's Law. He only sees Exxon's paychecks. His job is not ruling Venezuela, his job is keeping the oil flowing.
Venezuelans are "petitioning for redress" in the vain belief that political solutions are still available. They should be applying feedback to Exxon instead.
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