Say, Isn't This How The Ukraine Famine Got Started?
(Under Schadenfreude instead of Politics because I'm enjoying this waaaay too much....)
Step 1:Accuse people of being "horders".
Step 2:Nationalize the food.
Step 3:Famine!
"Schadenfreude is chocolate for the soul. That's why ours are full of cavities." (RK Milholland)
(And you really gotta love the 'take time off to study socialism'. I'd do that. "Hey, boss, sorry, can't come in to work today. I've got to read 'Das Kapital'. In the original German. So, uhm, I'm going to also need to learn German. So, well, I'm going to Germany for a year or two. At YOUR expense. Or off you go to the gulag. Ha ha, sucks to be you!")
This is just so great. I missed the era when leftists made excuses for Stalin's atrocities...now I get to see them stumbling all over themselves to justify the actions of El Presidente. I am so happy, I am hugging myself in glee. (Well, yeah, sucks to be the folks living in Venezuela right now, and they're probably wishing that CIA-backed coup had worked out after all, but hey...with any luck, their forthcoming misery will keep the rest of South/Central America socialist-free for a few years.)
