SURELY, IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE! (And Then It Did)

The crowds in Venezuela we’re elated, erupting into a frenzied delight of cheering and clapping when their government first began to take over the previously privately-held businesses. The owners were left with nothing. The businesses, now under government control. Years of hard work to build something they could take pride in…suddenly gone. Hair salons. Food markets. Bicycle repair shops. Book stores. Restaurants. The government now owned them all. And the people cheered.

Finally! Justice! Their government was going after the “rich” to ensure equality for all—even those “rich” who still had huge loans to repay from starting their businesses and to keep those businesses running. Even those who, at the end of the week, had had to pay their employees more than they, themselves, would earn, despite the owners putting in twice as many hours…since starting a new business typically means running in the red the first few years and endless hours of long work, reaping the rewards much later.

But that didn’t matter. They would have free healthcare! Free college! The crowds cheered. It was their moment of “justice,” watching those hardworking and motivated people have their business stripped from them so all people could be equal.

Equally poor, that is.

The motivated, the industrious, the risk-takers who weren’t afraid to work 80-plus hours a week to make something special, sacrificing the present in the hopes of securing a good future for themselves and their families…. Those who put their entire livelihoods and efforts into building something of their own, building it from scratch and all based on a dream of being independent…stripped of everything, as throngs of people cheered and danced in the streets over their demise.

People they had served, fixed their shoes, brought them coffee, shaped and painted their fingernails, people from many walks of life who dedicated themselves to a life of service—all for the chance to own their own businesses and control their own destinies … The crowds cheered as all they had worked for was taken away, becoming state owned property.

The cheering continued…briefly.

…until the shortages began. Food shelves became bare. Choices were greatly limited. Healthcare became nonexistent. Lines of people standing for the necessities of life became long—hours long. Prices skyrocketed. Children and adults alike starved.

So the government printed more money. THAT should fix the problem! And then the formerly cheering crowds watched inflation go so high that a suitcase was needed just to carry enough cash to buy one plucked chicken at the government owned market.

The people no longer cheered. Those who had cheered had failed to understand the ramifications of such actions. They had believed they were seeking justice, prosperity, demanding fairness, only to realize they had cheered their own destruction, ensured their own starvation, helped to usher in an era of such abject poverty that zoos were soon raided of their animals so children would not die of starvation; pets ended up in the watered down soup pot, so the children didn’t die of malnutrition.

A once prosperous nation had become one of the poorest in the world, and it had all been done not just under their noses, but with the majority of citizens demanding it and cheering it on.

They had never dreamed such destitution could happen there. Not to their prosperous country. Surely not to them! Such horror stories only happened elsewhere.

Or so they had believed. Not just in Venezuela, but in numerous counties throughout the world.

Surely, it can’t happen here, they once believed. And then it did.

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