Many decades later, Hugo Chávez’s government initiated an experiment in Venezuela—a country that possesses one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world—that pursued the opposite approach.
Covering water infrastructure, electricity grids, computing capacity, telecommunications, underground pipelines, and logistics, the program is intended to sustain its already declining growth and stimulate its increasingly flagging domestic demand.
They do not want our military fighting a war, any war, for another country when there is no serious threat to our own country.
One thing is clear from this election: the Democratic Party mainly flies these days on its left wing.
To be clear, it would have been better if the GOP had kept their majorities, and we are deeply disturbed by the choices voters made in several races.
Being free to cast just one trifling vote among thousands or millions of votes for deciding how to run the breadline, how to assign living quarters, etc. is not some magical “power” that gives you any meaningful control over your own life.
Well, we got to first start with history. In the modern period since 1900, in that 126 years, the party occupying the White House in 90% of the elections loses House seats.
Perhaps Khanna was trying to be provocative. His party is generally reveling in what it thinks is a massive national mandate for its agenda.
Perhaps the most consequential development is the DSA’s success in making ideas once considered politically unacceptable increasingly difficult for Democrat leaders to dismiss.
And so, it’s considered just—it was gonna be left-wing. It was always left-wing. But the polls said that there might be a little conservative surge, but no one had anticipated that it was a tidal wave.
Democratic socialists and a resurgent religious Left emerged from the night with new power.
The blue tsunami came to be Tuesday night as a wave of Democrats took seats in the House and the Senate that seemed impossible not long ago. They will now have sizable majorities in both houses of Congress.
The incoming DSA freshmen will join two existing DSA House members, making their group in the lower chamber number at least seven.
“Tonight, you’ve lifted one of your own all the way to the United States Senate,” he said, “now the real work begins, and we have to make it count.”
This is all while he acknowledged “in the end, this is an interesting election year. I think we’re getting headwinds, and it’s making it more difficult for the down ticket races.”
In fact, he has consistently argued that a US invasion of Cuba would entail significant costs and have far-reaching implications for the security of Cuba, the United States, and the wider region.
