A good roundup of the imminent death of a former democracy here.

Check the links in the article for a lot more detail. Many of those links have further links.

I bring Venezuela up because this is a very specific ideology in action. A very specific set of ideas about economics, private property, individual liberty, and the relationship between the State and the citizen. Chavez uses a very specific rhetoric, and his thinking has a very visible historical foundation.

These identical ideas are being taught in our colleges, and infest the rest of our institutions, including far too much of our elected government.

Venezuela is our nation under "progressivism." Oh, my. Was that a "label?"