You insult Venezuela.
The real Venezuelans unlike your N. Venezuelans are housed & medically cared for.

IMO, it will be a temporary suspension of the country as we know it.

After a century or two of fascism, another generation of American progressives will rebel and make a democracy that will be better than the oligarchy the Founders made for themselves. Of course there will be bloodshed.

@yvilletom I fear you may be right...EXACTLY right.

@yvilletom If we let the disease progress, it will be far harder to cure. Preserving constitutional government is already going to be an arduous job over the next decade or so, and I really don't like to think of everything that will be involved. Real Defendant Trump is running against the rule of law and the MAGA SCOTUS majority is ready to gut the rule of law. The hearing on Real Defendant Trump's immunity claims telegraphed loud and clear what danger we face.

@alliwant I don’t want to preserve a constitutional oligarchy.

I want a constitutional democracy. To see what one looks like, you’ll find the South African constitution on the web. It’s almost 200 years newer and more progressive than the 1787 U. S. constitution.

@yvilletom There is no way we will survive a century or two of the kind of reckless pillage Real Defendant Trump and his cronies will unleash. We have to head this off, the status quo is imperfect but vastly preferable to that reign of terror. Prevention is immensely better than remediation. Use climate change as an analogy; if we jerk around another century, the cost to recover will be several times world GDP. Paying a small percentage for prevention is far better than the obviously impossible.

@alliwant
i don’t share your negativity.