"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Daily Life in Venezuela Is Like a Post-Apocalyptic TV Show
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Mon, 2018-02-12 01:00
"Lately, I have come to discover that the worst case scenarios they depict sometimes have been a pale picture of the reality I have witnessed. It is one thing to see stinking zombies trying to grab the heroes in the screen, and a very different one to watch a human being, skinny and smelly, rip open a garbage bag while his or her kids desperately look inside. Tell me about reality shocks."
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