Socialism works until you run out of other people's money. Then you run out of food. Then eventually the people shooting the rioting mobs demanding food run out of bullets.
This is the political and economic trajectory of Socialism. That is what is taking place in Venezuela.
Protests have spread across the country, with people chanting "We want food!"
At least 400 people were arrested in Venezuela this week, authorities said on Wednesday, as the South American nation grapples with widespread looting and riots amid a crippling economic crisis and the world’s highest rate of inflation.
Looters swarmed shops in the coastal town of Cumana on Tuesday to seize food and other supplies, with security forces nearly powerless to stop them,
Hundreds have been reported arrested and at least 50 dead. The Venezuelan Socialist tyrannical regime sent in the military as cities continue to burn and crowds chant for food. It's a scene right out of the French Revolution.
Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting "We want food!" near Caracas' presidential palace on Thursday, the latest street violence in the crisis-hit OPEC nation.
Hundreds of angry Venezuelans heading toward Miraflores palace in downtown Caracas were met by National Guard troops and police who blocked a major road.
President Nicolas Maduro, under intense pressure over a worsening economic crisis in the South American nation of 30 million, had been scheduled to address a rally of indigenous groups nearby around the same time.
The protest spilled out of long lines at shops in the area, witnesses said, after some people tried to hijack a food truck.
"I've been here since eight in the morning. There's no more food in the shops and supermarkets," one woman told pro-opposition broadcaster Vivoplay.
"We're hungry and tired."
It's the ideal Bernie Sanders paradise, Latin American Socialism coming apart at the seams.
Francisco Toro, a Venezuelan journalist and blogger behind the Caracas Chronicles, described the Claps strategy as “high-stakes, low-IQ social reform” and said politicising hunger was a “crime against humanity”.
“I really find it very difficult to glean any sort of logic to this and really alarming that they will not even talk to people able to give them minimally logic advice,” he said.
“It seems like the social conflict situation is going to continue to blow up to the point of making that whole discussion moot.”
Mr Toro said the crisis had been avoidable and was a result of “basic policy mistakes”.
“The inability to reach outside the resonance chamber and seek advice from anybody who is not a hardline Marxist has reached such an extreme level,” he added.
Tell it to Obama.