I think we are paying the price now. Venezuela has been paying the price for years and years. The impulse to destroy is burning itself out.
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I think we are paying the price now. Venezuela has been paying the price for years and years. The impulse to destroy is burning itself out.
That's correct. Actually, one of the heroes of this so-called revolution is Ezequiel Zamora. He was a leader of one of the many civil wars we had (The Federal War). It ended around the time the USA was still fighting theirs (1863). Zamora was our William Tecumseh Sherman when it came to total war.
Why would a political movement, in times of peace, with total control of all government branches use that kind of mentality as inspiration is beyond me.
What we are seeing both in infrastructure and political discourse is precisely a sort of total war where everything will be destroyed at the end, not because it was needed to win a war (that never happened), but because they enjoy the suffering they impose on anyone who thinks differently.
As a result we have a generation of criminals whose methods are absolutely brutal and sickening; gratuitious violence from two decades of gratuitious confrontation and total war discourse.
Only two decades? I think it's been going on for far longer, at least 100 years, maybe back before your Tecumseh. And I think of whatever we are dealing with now as a force of nature that has become senile, past its useful age, dying as all things must.