The Political Left is Collapsing Throughout South America

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

It's no secret that the once thriving Venezuela has been reduced to a steaming shit heap due to the radical policies of the Chavez / Maduro administrations. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, who was ousted last year after presiding over another Socialist economic collapse, is now facing criminal charges for corruption. Now the latest in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, a former Communist guerrilla, is about to be kicked out the door after the Brazilian Congress authorized impeachment proceedings against her.

Brazil's Rousseff 'outraged' by impeachment vote

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

 

[Steven_R]

Leftist ideology always looks great until one actually lives under it. Something about not being as good as advertised. But people have to learn the hard way.

 

[OKTexas]

It's no secret that the once thriving Venezuela has been reduced to a steaming shit heap due to the radical policies of the Chavez / Maduro administrations. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, who was ousted last year after presiding over another Socialist economic collapse, is now facing criminal charges for corruption. Now the latest in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, a former Communist guerrilla, is about to be kicked out the door after the Brazilian Congress authorized impeachment proceedings against her.

Brazil's Rousseff 'outraged' by impeachment vote

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

And you put this on a US politics board WHY?

 

[Steven_R]

Because as Europe and the Americas and Asia love leftist ideologies less everyday, We The People keep rushing headlong into it?

 

[daws101]

Because as Europe and the Americas and Asia love leftist ideologies less everyday, We The People keep rushing headlong into it?

So countries are not made up of the people in them?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It wasn't that long ago the left was falling all over themselves crowing about Venezuela....now they'd rather forget it exists

 

[ForeverYoung436]

It's no secret that the once thriving Venezuela has been reduced to a steaming shit heap due to the radical policies of the Chavez / Maduro administrations. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, who was ousted last year after presiding over another Socialist economic collapse, is now facing criminal charges for corruption. Now the latest in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, a former Communist guerrilla, is about to be kicked out the door after the Brazilian Congress authorized impeachment proceedings against her.

Brazil's Rousseff 'outraged' by impeachment vote

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

And you put this on a US politics board WHY?

So that we won't vote for Sanders.

 

[MisterBeale]

It's no secret that the once thriving Venezuela has been reduced to a steaming shit heap due to the radical policies of the Chavez / Maduro administrations. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, who was ousted last year after presiding over another Socialist economic collapse, is now facing criminal charges for corruption. Now the latest in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, a former Communist guerrilla, is about to be kicked out the door after the Brazilian Congress authorized impeachment proceedings against her.

Brazil's Rousseff 'outraged' by impeachment vote

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

I wish there were more facts and less propaganda in that article.

 

[OKTexas]

It's no secret that the once thriving Venezuela has been reduced to a steaming shit heap due to the radical policies of the Chavez / Maduro administrations. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, who was ousted last year after presiding over another Socialist economic collapse, is now facing criminal charges for corruption. Now the latest in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, a former Communist guerrilla, is about to be kicked out the door after the Brazilian Congress authorized impeachment proceedings against her.

Brazil's Rousseff 'outraged' by impeachment vote

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

And you put this on a US politics board WHY?

So that we won't vote for Sanders.

The hildabitch is just as bad, but that doesn't alter the fact that the OP has nothing to do with US politics.

 

[MisterBeale]

American Imperialism and Globalism are the link. . . .

Frankly, it seems to me, Brazil is no different than here. It matters not if a pol. is on the right or the left. Money and power corrupt absolutely. Folks playing these partisan bullshit games are being blind.

Brazil’s political crisis
Time to go
The tarnished president should now resign
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21695391-tarnished-president-should-now-resign-time-go
Three ways to leave the Planalto


How she exits the Planalto, the presidential palace, matters greatly. We continue to believe that, in the absence of proof of criminality, Ms Rousseff’s impeachment is unwarranted. The proceeding against her in Congress is based on unproven allegations that she used accounting trickery to hide the true size of the budget deficit in 2015. This looks like a pretext for ousting an unpopular president. The idea, put forward by the head of the impeachment committee, that congressmen deliberating Ms Rousseff’s fate will listen to “the street”, would set a worrying precedent. Representative democracies should not be governed by protests and opinion polls.


There are three ways of removing Ms Rousseff that rest on more legitimate foundations. The first would be to show that she obstructed the Petrobras investigation. Allegations by a PT senator that she did so may now form the basis of a second impeachment motion, but they are so far unproven and she denies them; Ms Rousseff’s attempt to shield Lula from prosecution may provide further grounds. A second option would be a decision by Brazil’s electoral court to call a new presidential election. It may do that, if it finds that her re-election campaign in 2014 was financed with bribes channelled through Petrobras executives. But this investigation will be drawn out. The quickest and best way for Ms Rousseff to leave the Planalto would be for her to resign before being pushed out.


Her departure would offer Brazil the chance of a fresh start. But the president’s resignation would not, of itself, solve Brazil’s many underlying problems. Her place would initially be taken by the vice-president, Michel Temer, leader of the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement. Mr Temer could head a national-unity government, including opposition parties, which, in theory, might be able to embark on the fiscal reforms needed to stabilise the economy and close a budget deficit that is close to 11% of GDP.


Sadly, Mr Temer’s party is as deeply enmeshed in the Petrobras scandal as the PT. Many politicians who would join a unity government, including some from the opposition, are popularly seen as representatives of a discredited ruling class. Of Congress’s 594 members, 352 face accusations of criminal wrongdoing. A new presidential election would give voters an opportunity to entrust reforms to a new leader. But even this would leave the rotten legislature in place until 2019.

After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington
After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington

BRAZIL’S LOWER HOUSE of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, sending the removal process to the Senate. In an act of unintended though rich symbolism, the House member who pushed impeachment over the 342-vote threshold was Dep. Bruno Araújo, himself implicated by a document indicating he may have received illegal funds from the construction giant at the heart of the nation’s corruption scandal. Even more significantly, Araújo belongs to the center-right party PSDB, whose nominees have lost four straight national elections to Rousseff’s moderate-left PT party, with the last ballot-box defeat delivered just 18 months ago, when 54 million Brazilians voted to re-elect Dilma as president.

Those two facts about Araújo underscore the unprecedentedly surreal nature of yesterday’s proceedings in Brasília, capital of the world’s fifth-largest country. Politicians and parties that have spent two decades trying, and failing, to defeat PT in democratic elections triumphantly marched forward to effectively overturn the 2014 vote by removing Dilma on grounds that, as today’s New York Times report makes clear, are, at best, dubious in the extreme. Even The Economist, which has long despised the PT and its anti-poverty programs and wants Dilma to resign, has argued that “in the absence of proof of criminality, impeachment is unwarranted” and “looks like a pretext for ousting an unpopular president.”

Sunday’s proceedings, conducted in the name of combating corruption, were presided over by one of the democratic world’s most blatantly corrupt politicians, House speaker Eduardo Cunha (above, center), who was recently discovered to have stashed millions of dollars in secret Swiss bank accounts that have no possible non-corrupt source and who lied under oath when he denied to Congressional investigators that he had foreign bank accounts. Of the 594 members of the House, as the Globe and Mail reported yesterday, “318 are under investigation or face charges” while their target, President Rousseff, “herself faces no allegation of financial impropriety.”

 

[AceRothstein]

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

The regimes of the radical right have a similar history in South America.

 

[TeaBagger]

Leftist ideology always looks great until one actually lives under it. Something about not being as good as advertised. But people have to learn the hard way.

Yep like in Leftist countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Luxombourg, Switzerland and the UK which are all in the top 20 for standard of living.

The least socialist countries are in the Middle East and they are thriving....NOT!

When you righties make a fact free statement it is almost always bullshit.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Leftist ideology always looks great until one actually lives under it. Something about not being as good as advertised. But people have to learn the hard way.

All we need is the collapse to spread, we need a complete collapse of all Leftist ideology worldwide, we need to restore some sanity and common sense to this planet.

 

[Moonglow]

What form of govt. hasn't failed in South America..?? There has been left and right winged backed govts. and they have all failed...

 

[tinydancer]

It's no secret that the once thriving Venezuela has been reduced to a steaming shit heap due to the radical policies of the Chavez / Maduro administrations. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, who was ousted last year after presiding over another Socialist economic collapse, is now facing criminal charges for corruption. Now the latest in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, a former Communist guerrilla, is about to be kicked out the door after the Brazilian Congress authorized impeachment proceedings against her.

Brazil's Rousseff 'outraged' by impeachment vote

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

It never ceases to amaze me how we in America and Canada and Britain keep turning a blind eye to the poverty and violence subjected to our friends and neighbors to the south. I don't understand why we can't look at the immigration issue and tie our foreign aid which never gets to the people with a true plan to help people in the lands of their birth to be successful.

And don't get me wrong. One of my best friends runs an extremely successful business out of Chile. You can be successful in the countries that aren't 100% communist.

Just think about it. North America vs South America. One is prosperous beyond belief and the other a hodge podge of third world countries but with such natural resources to dream of and if educated a populace that could be brilliant.

I hope things change with this next election.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

It's no secret that the once thriving Venezuela has been reduced to a steaming shit heap due to the radical policies of the Chavez / Maduro administrations. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, who was ousted last year after presiding over another Socialist economic collapse, is now facing criminal charges for corruption. Now the latest in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, a former Communist guerrilla, is about to be kicked out the door after the Brazilian Congress authorized impeachment proceedings against her.

Brazil's Rousseff 'outraged' by impeachment vote

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

It never ceases to amaze me how we in America and Canada and Britain keep turning a blind eye to the poverty and violence subjected to our friends and neighbors to the south. I don't understand why we can't look at the immigration issue and tie our foreign aid which never gets to the people with a true plan to help people in the lands of their birth to be successful.

And don't get me wrong. One of my best friends runs an extremely successful business out of Chile. You can be successful in the countries that aren't 100% communist.

Just think about it. North America vs South America. One is prosperous beyond belief and the other a hodge podge of third world countries but with such natural resources to dream of and if educated a populace that could be brilliant.

I hope things change with this next election.

"And don't get me wrong. One of my best friends runs an extremely successful business out of Chile. You can be successful in the countries that aren't 100% communist."

Yes and they can thank General Augusto Pinochet for this, were it not for him and his great leadership, then Chile would have certainly become a 100% Communist craphole like Cuba.

 

[daws101]

Radical leftists regimes are always embroiled by scandals of corruption and greed, but the promise of "free" shit is a powerful motivator to keep the poor and ignorant under their thumb.

The regimes of the radical right have a similar history in South America.

Similar is being polite.

 

[TeaBagger]

The banks and corporations in the US are doing great under national socialism aka corporate socialism.

National Socialism is the product of over a century of political and social thought cultivated in Germanic nations, popularized and first put into action by its foremost proponent, German Führer (Leader) and Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

 

[daws101]

Yep like in Leftist countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Luxombourg, Switzerland and the UK which are all in the top 20 for standard of living.

The least socialist countries are in the Middle East and they are thriving....NOT!

When you righties make a fact free statement it is almost always bullshit.

Hush you fool, you're babbling silliness again.

To a right wing moron facts are silliness.

You rarely make sense, so I don't care what you think darling.

Good news for you. A bunch of leftist scientists are cloning Robert E Lee's horse. Now you can blow it.

Huh? Why should I give a crap what a "bunch of Leftist Libtards" are cloning.

I fixed your spelling error, you wrote:

"A bunch of leftist scientists are cloning"

You meant to write:

"A bunch of Leftist Libtards are cloning"

Obviously you didn't get the joke.

Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans: Pew Poll

 

[percysunshine]

The banks and corporations in the US are doing great under national socialism aka corporate socialism.

National Socialism is the product of over a century of political and social thought cultivated in Germanic nations, popularized and first put into action by its foremost proponent, German Führer (Leader) and Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Bernie Sanders is a Nazi?

Are you sure you want to propose that?