#431 Franklin Camargo - How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela

Yeah, it's so interesting listening to you talk, Franklin, because, you know, I talk to a lot of people.

I've traveled the world pretty extensively.

I have spoken to many people from this former Soviet Union, and I've visited lots of those former communist countries.

I, you know, I have...

My wife is half Cuban, so she's got a whole Cuban side of her family.

And I spend a lot of time in Miami, where everyone knows there's lots and lots of Cubans over there, talking to yourself.

And it's just interesting, the contrast.

the juxtaposition between people who they and their families and even going back some of their ancestors have grown up under real communism real socialism right right like it's not a it's not an idea they learned about in university or whatever it's like no they they really experienced it they lived through it for decades they witnessed it and Pretty much universally, they all hate it and they speak up very, very, very aggressively against it.

And then I'm from the UK, but of course I spend a lot of time in the US and Western Europe and I've been to Australia, lots of these different countries, lots of these first world, especially Anglosphere, but also not just the English speaking countries, but let's just say the Western first world countries as we call them.

There is this increasing...

It's been around my entire life.

I'm 40 years old, and I've always seen people who like to flirt with the ideas of communism, or if they want to water it down, they call it socialism.

But particularly, I'd say over the last 15 or so years, In all of these countries, whether you're talking about the UK or Canada or the US or pretty much any Western European country, there's been this rise in the popularity of these ideas.

More and more Americans, more and more British people, particularly on the younger end, you know, your generation and younger even.

you know, saying, oh, capitalism has failed.

We need more socialism.

The government needs to be doing more.

Oh, actually, you know what? Yeah, I am a communist.

They don't see anything wrong with saying that.

And it's just so interesting, this difference between the reality of it, right? The reality of it, whether you're talking about reading books, whether you're reading Solzhenitsyn or you're just reading about the history of what's happened in these nations that have really, really done it.

or talking to people who have lived through it and very often left and fled to the UK or fled to the USA or gone somewhere else to get away from all of that.

And I'm just curious to get I have lots of opinions on this, but I'm just kind of curious to get your take, particularly given the work that you do now when you're in the USA.

You're not just in the USA.

You're in California.

You're not just in California.