VENEZUELA (interesting timeline, sourced from a Facebook post)

• 1992 – became 3rd richest country in the Hemisphere;
• 1997 – became 2nd largest purchaser of Ford F-150 pickups;
• 2001 – voted in Socialist president who ran on ‘income inequality’;
• 2004 – private healthcare is completely socialized;
• 2007 – all higher education becomes ‘free’;
• 2009 – socialist gov’t banned private gun ownership;
• 2012 – Bernie Sanders praises their ‘American Dream’;
• 2014 – opposition leaders are imprisoned;
• 2016 – food/healthcare shortages become widespread;
• 2017 – constitution and elections are suspended/mutilated;
• 2019 – unarmed citizens massacred by government

Today’s citizenry of Venezuela are dumpster-diving for food-scraps.

According to a Heritage.org 2019 report…

“Venezuela is ranked last among 32 countries in the Americas region, and its overall score is well below the regional and world averages. Venezuela’s once-modern economy has collapsed into a sort of 21st century feudalism. The bungling and deeply corrupt “21st Century Socialist” government’s policies have caused severe shortages of food, medicines, and other consumer goods that, combined with hyperinflation, have accompanied one of the worst economic contractions ever recorded.”

As noted in our headline, socialism-lovers are free to fact-check this data.

As a matter of fact, they’re ENCOURAGED to do so.