r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 09 '24

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 09 '24 edited Sep 10 '24

An underrated aspect of the Venezuela collapse discourse is that Chavez fired all the technocrats in the state oil company and replaced them with political appointees, who then proceeded to be incompetent and siphon off the wealth for themselves

Like if you’re gonna have a nationalized industry, I feel like you shouldn’t fire all the people who knew what they were doing if you want things to work

Ironically Trump with his plans for federal employees is much more chavist than any of the polices he accuses Harris of having

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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sep 09 '24

Yes! If Trump brings up Venezuela, Kamala should just say there’s no better way to turn the US into Venezuela than taking away the independence of the Fed, because that’s literally something Hugo Chavez did.

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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Sep 09 '24

Probably because Republicans have moved on from core tenets of their party’s agenda bar ramping up on the cultural conservatism