Price Controls (Just like Venezuela tried)

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No we aren’t Venezuela no matter how hard the fear mongerers try to make it so.

How would you know?

Because I know.

No, you don’t. You’ve never seen it.

When you© say you’re going to get Norway, you© do so from a white, middle class or better, mostly male perspective. Pretty much the only people who say that crap are white.

And if you white folks were homogenous like Norway (or Maine, NH, Connecticut), you might have a shot.

But you’re not. You© are not the deciders. You don’t have hegemony.

This of course is nonsense.

We are not Venezuela precisely because our socioeconomic history is completely different from Venezuela’s.

Pelosi’s ideas are rooted in our socioeconomic history, not Venezuela’s.

The impacts here would not turn us into Venezuela because our current socioeconomic situation is nothing like Venezuela’s and never has been.

Price controls are a bad idea, but right wingers can’t resist ratcheting the rhetoric up to 11 instead of rationally explaining why they are a bad idea.