I ' m far more concerned about what ' s going to happen if it doesn ' t get flipped . We are up shit creek if Donald takes office in January . <| sep |> I ' m sure his is tucked in to a pair of high waist jeans though . <| sep |> I imagine you ' re not particularly interested in any answer I bring forward and whatever I do bring forward will be challenged instantaneouslySo , and im sorry if this is a little jumbled . I ' ll reformat it when its postedBy its strictest definition socialists have not been in control of Venezuela . Its a lot like the condition w China , or Mr . Sanders , or North Korea . Just because they call themselves socialists . they may not actually be socialist . One must look towards their governance and policies . For Venezuela its a combination of factorsTheir main source of revenue is oil . When the oil price fluctuates so does their economy . The oil price collapsed , as went their economy . We can couple that with the asinine belief of the minister of economy and productivity who refused to believe that if you print more money that money is now worth less . In fact , we can just say that they had incompetent department heads across the entire government , coupled with widespread corruption that has existed for decades . Chavez nationalizing companies such as agricultural , concrete , financial , etc etc and placed them under his government control . This is state capitalism , not socialism . He maintained appeal by very generous social policies w oil revenue . Now that oil revenue is at a low they cannot finance these programs on top of other needed programs which also increases their inflation . It puzzles me that people constantly try to blame socialists for Venezuela when their failures are attributed to Chief of State surrounding themselves with yes men and with the majority of the production privately owned . editI didn ' t downvote you by the way . On politically sensitive subjects like these I take the moral highroad and avoid suppression .