Nicolas Maduro is nothing but a thug who gained power over a nation.  He’s not the only thug who has ever done so, of course; in fact, you can probably count on one hand the number of godly, virtuous, decent leaders there are in the world today.  And I include America in that count.  Power corrupts, and because the world has largely rejected God, more and more gangsters and human scum are rising to positions of power and influence in nations across the earth.  It has not been a good thing—anywhere.  But it’s the world we currently live in.  

Governments have convinced most of mankind that only government—and that means people in power, “government” is nothing but a nebulous concept without “leaders” and bureaucrats to run it—are the major, or only, solution to humanity’s problems.  That Marxist who is now mayor of New York City actually said so—“there is no problem that government cannot solve.”  And that, apparently, includes taking people’s property away from them, the key facet of Marxism.  It will be interesting to see what, if anything, the people of New York do about it.  Will they fight?  Or will they be sheep?  Stay tuned.

But government “solutions” are the universal answer now.  I don’t know how many times—countless—when I was teaching in China, I read an essay in which some student discussed some problem, and their answer—every single time—included “government must do X, Y, or Z.”  Well, that’s........

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