Realistic reasons why liberals are a danger to us all

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. (

By Wayne Allyn Root Review-Journal

August 22, 2018 - 9:00 pm

In Sunday’s column, I wrote about how liberal Democrats are a danger. It just got much worse. The lessons are staring us in the face.

This is what liberal Democrats offer America.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and the new Democrat hero Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all propose socialist policies. They want desperately to destroy or badly damage capitalism — the same capitalism unleashed by President Donald Trump that has resulted in a historic 400 percent increase in black business ownership in one year.

Why would anyone want to change those results?

There is no need to guess if the socialist policies of today’s Socialistic Democratic Party work. Venezuela was the richest country in Latin America only 20 years ago. That’s when the country embraced capitalism. Then socialist Hugo Chavez took over. He modeled Venezuela after Cuba.

Today there is no food on shelves … very little water … no gas available in an oil-rich country … no toilet paper. Many of the proud people of Venezuela are eating out of dumpsters and garbage cans.

Days ago, it got much worse. The socialist president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, devalued the currency overnight by 96 percent. This is one of the largest currency devaluations in history.

Inflation is now 1 million percent in Venezuela.

But have no fear. Venezuela’s socialist leader introduced bold new policies to save the country. His solutions to the unfolding disaster? Higher taxes, subsidized gas prices and a massive minimum wage increase.

Do you recognize those solutions? Those are the exact prescriptions offered by America’s Democrat politicians.