Fighting For Democracy For Profit, the American Way,

VENEZUELA is economically, and therefore politically, troubled, immersed in turmoil. The cause, unlike our conservative comrads would have us believe, is not socialism. the cause is the steep drop in the price of oil, and Venezuela's excessive dependence on oil exports for its national wealth. All countries beset by economic stress impose restriction on economic behavior, and often, to enforce these restrictions, they impose restrictions on political behavior. Franklin Roosevelt, upon assuming the presidency, declared a "bank holiday", in which the nation's banks were closed for several days, to forestall mass withdrawals, an prohibited the personal ownership of gold. Richard Nixon ordered wage and price freezes as a means of mitigating runaway inflation. Under Trump, the United States government has decided that the decline of democracy in Venezuela is unacceptable, and may well require an American military response. The United States of altruism, always ready to fight in foreign lands to preserve the sacred institution of democracy. or is it by chance the United States of Acquisition, aggressively pursuing the sacred cause of corporate expansion and profit,, the sacred cause of foreign investment by America's ruling corporate oligarchy? In Viet Nam, the U.S. fought n the side of capitalistic dictatorship, against the evil forces of socialistic dictatorship. Dictatorship was fine and dandy with the U.S. in Cuba, before Castro, under Batista, the dictator who welcomed American corporate investment. Castro rejected American economic imperialism, and for that, became our sworn enemy. In 1954 the CIA and the American fruit company, seeking access to agricultural land, replaced a democratically elected socialist government with a capitalistic dictatorship. In 1973, the democratically elected Chilean head of state, Salvador Allende, a socialist, was replaced by the United States with a dictator, Pinochet, who welcomed American capitalism, No, the United States of Corporate America cares not a whit for democracy in other lands. The Untied States of Acquisition wants to make the world safe for American corporate exploitation, exploitation of natural resources, and cheap foreign labor. Whether a democracy is in place in foreign lands is of no concern to our corporate masters. Whether Trump and his gang of billionaires perpetuates a fine American tradition of seeking to enrich the rich by exploiting Venezuela remains to be seen, but five'll get you ten, somehow, some way, American investment in Venezuela will come to pass.