Venezuela - Lets avoid this future at home...

Things are REALLY reaching a conclusion, in Venezuela.

Lets start with an introduction, something more general in nature, so that we may learn something useful from the dire occurrences happening there at this precise moment:

Socialism an economic crime, usually with millions of victims (the victims are usually the majority of the population of the affected countries - all but the leaders in power, their direct entourage, and the goons that enforce the regime).
Its effects include individual (but widespread) impoverishment and (so) worse conditions of life for almost everyone. The effects also include (directly accountable) deaths due to the effects of collective impoverishment, that inevitably results in worse medical care, less ability to preserve the environment, etc.. Naturally, these last effects are increased by the strongly collectivist nature of socialism: What matters is the collective, not the individual. The importance that may still be attributed to individuals (regarded as figures, as very small parts, very insignificant parts, of the collective) is as symbols (when they can be conveniently used as such) for the promotion of the "common good".

Socialism (and collectivism in general) is also a political crime since, almost (should almost be used here?) by definition, it integrates a full disregard for individual freedoms and rights. Everyone must conform to strict rules (decided by the enlightened rulers that always know better - Stalin, Ceausescu, or Kim Il Sung are fine examples), and dissidence is always cut short terminally.

Socialism is also direct violence!
(And that is the reason for this post and the connection and motivation for this introduction.)
Socialism always involves revolutionary processes.
It means expropriating the property of those that owned things (farms, factories, stores, public listed companies, above than average houses - or all of them). It means eliminating personal rights (to free reunion, public protest, free communication of different political views, etc.). It requires blood to implement and enforce.
The practice of the implementation of every socialist society, in every socialist country that ever existed, confirms this. Are there exceptions to this rule? All I can think of are confirmations of the rule: Russia, China, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, North Korea, Vietnam, all the ex-socialist/communist countries of "Eastern Europe" occupied by the Soviet Union in WWII... In every one, the implementation of socialism was done through extreme violence and countless deaths. Are there exceptions?
More curiously, the socialist/communist theory also defends this!
Most (all?) of the theoretical luminaries of full-socialism/communism assumed/defended clearly that implementation of socialism required violence. (Again, are there exceptions? I can't think of a single one... Not Marx, not Lenin, not Trotsky, not Mao, not Castro, not Pol Pot, not Mugabe...)

In Venezuela, in particular, the acute phase of full-socialism implementation is now occurring.
Please (for YOUR sake, for the sake of your loved ones, for the sake of us all - to prevent a similar process, in the near future, where you live...) check what is happening there:

http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/13/the-thing-about-colectivos/

http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/12/mayhem-in-caracas/

http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/12/hey-violent-opposition-check-out-your-victims/

For an explanation off all that (less emotional, more articulate and complete that the raw news of the previous links) read this:
http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/14/samsara-chronicles/

And, if you can read Spanish, please read this, out today, from one of the leading Venezuelan newspapers:
http://www.el-nacional.com/politica/Estudiantes-detenidos-torturados-incomunicados_0_355164768.html

Final note:
Consider that, in Venezuela, things started with democratic elections, and evolved from there...
(They usually start worse from the beginning, with war (civil war or international war), civil or military coups, etc. - and evolve from that.)

So, in short (if there is anything useful to learn from this):
Socialists and communists are criminals, and must be regarded (and fought) considering that fact.
Polite political arguing produces nothing on them, since they view their objectives as the only valuable thing to achieve, and base their thought processes in pure propaganda instead of serious debate of ideas...
They just use the naive democratic political processes of our decaying countries as a convenient (but transient) mean to achieve their ending goals (and this is so just when they don't have the direct force to achieve power through more expedite means...).
Once in power that transient mean they use to achieve their end, must be terminated - least in demotes them from power, again! (Besides being true monomaniac believers in their cause, "democratic alternance" is always annoying when you are already in power...)
Delaying resistance to their rise to power to very last stages of the process, as in Venezuela, is inviting what happened there.

PS.

For those that may think that my position on this is somewhat "radical", or extreme:
This post is NOT radical or extreme!
Extreme is to have a daughter (or a son) kidnapped by the armed goons of the regime (because "arrests", in Venezuela, at present, are not the normal arrests of a civilized country, they are the communist version - see the link, already above), tortured, raped, and finally "disappearing", simply because she (or he) participated in a peaceful student protest that the communist authorities did not not like.
Now, THAT is radical!