Wasting Time With Alex

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

No longer trying to pretend he is a man of the people

As many have pointed out Chavez’s recent humiliating referendum defeat was not going to stop him. And all of us where right it looks like. He is not longer pretending to be a man of the people. He is now rough shod ridding over the will of the people, because after all, like all collectivists he knows better. So now he is just passing the referendum agenda by decree:

Chavez opponents also are outraged by 26 laws the president just decreed, some of them mirroring the socialist measures voters rejected in a December referendum. “We said in the referendum that we didn’t want that, and now he’s put it in the decrees,” said protester Josefina Bravo, a 59-year-old who wore a sticker reading “No means no” on her baseball cap. “That’s the problem we have: All the powers are concentrated in the president.”

Chavez issued the decrees just before the expiration of special legislative powers that allowed him to make laws without National Assembly approval for the past 18 months. For a time after the defeat of his constitutional referendum in December that would have imposed radical economic changes and let him run for re-election indefinitely, Chavez seemed to be taking a more pragmatic, less confrontational approach to his socialist project.

Now the leftist leader is pushing hard again to remake Venezuelan society.

Yeah, he is remaking it into another Cuba, North Korea, or USSR. And this is what every god damn collectivist will do if they are given power. Think hard about the elitist collectivists that have been telling us we are now living in a fascist country. I guarantee you they are a lot more likely to impose fascist rule if they get power as history proves over and over.