Years ago, I shared a joke about American leftists fleeing to Canada.
But since Canada actually has a lot of pro-free enterprise policies (completely decentralized education and school choice, welfare reform and reduction, privatized air traffic control, etc), it doesn’t make much sense for statists to head north.
Last year, I followed up with some humor asking why leftists don’t move to places where socialism actually exists, such as Venezuela.
Well, the satirists at Babylon Bee have big news.
The caravan of Central American migrants heading to the U.S. is going to cross paths with a southbound caravan.
A migrant caravan full of leftists desiring to enter the socialist paradise of Venezuela departed the United States Thursday and began marching toward through Mexico,
stating they will demand asylum so they might experience the far better life that socialism offers. …”Everyone there has the same quantity of possessions and food,” said one marcher. “Everyone makes millions of dollars, and very few people work. It’s a real paradise.” The refugees have complex motivations, but the vast majority simply want to see everything socialism has to offer after suffering the amazing benefits of capitalism for too long. …At its current pace, the caravan is expected to arrive just in time for Venezuela to run out of food entirely.
That sounds like a good trade to me.
Venezuela gets a bunch of crazies who will revel in equal levels of poverty (with the exception of the ruling elite, of course), and America will get a bunch of folks who want to work hard for a better life (an outcome that will be more likely since there will be fewer statists offering them welfare and telling them not to assimilate.
Speaking of assimilation, I suspect the leftists will have a very hard time adjusting to life under socialism.
P.S. Sticking with satire, American refugees have also fled to Peru.
P.P.S. If leftists don’t want to leave, maybe they’d go with this proposed national divorce agreement?
[…] There are no caravans marching toward Venezuela (notwithstanding this satire). […]
“UNDER SOCIALISM, YOU CAN’T EVEN AFFORD TO DIE”
By Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272190/under-socialism-you-cant-even-afford-die-daniel-greenfield
“Report: 80 Percent of Venezuelans Short of Food”
by Ben Kew
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2018/11/20/report-80-percent-venezuelans-short-food/
Decades of US-backed death squads, US-backed juntas, US-undermined and/or overturned elections in their countries-how dare these people show up at our doorstep escaping our policies and actions wanting to see the life the US builds off of their hegemony, escaping the version of “democracy” the US foists on them.
is Bernie Sanders leading the caravan? or is it one of the many other celebrities who have praised the Maduro regime… here is a list of 10 of America’s most prominent socialist democrats… who want to do for America what Maduro did for Venezuela…
have you ever wondered what Morris the cat might taste like in a stew?
“10 Famous People Who Praised Venezuela’s Descent Into Socialist Hell”
by Ben Kew
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/05/04/ten-influential-public-figures-praised-venezuelas-descent-socialist-hell/