VENEZUELA Today.

The idea that you would use the suffering of an entire country's population to conflate Bernie Sanders with Chavez-style socialism is fallacious scarecrow garbage.

Your entire argument against Democratic Socialism basically amounts to, "Every car I tried to power with jet fuel blew up, therefore jet fuel is a poor fuel source."

Your statistics are cherry-picked and misleading, the absence of GDP when discussing rich vs. poor countries deceitful, and the overall fecundity of your sources is lacking.

I don't get paid enough to play on Reddit so I'll finish this briefly: Venezuela suffered an economic crash in the 1980s from which it never recovered. Democratic Socialism in such a place is like trying to power a Mazda Miata with jet fuel. Sanders, on the other hand, wants to tilt the scales away from oligarchy in places where Adam Smith's vile maxim have become apparent.

You might be able to learn a thing or two from those college graduates you scoff at. They did, after all, spend much of their life learning how to learn.

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