For those who do not know about Political History of Venezuela ... The United States of America is not a democracy. United States of America is a Federal Republic. Interestingly, Switzerland is not a democracy either. Switzerland is a Confederation. The two nations are rich and prosperous. I will explain that it is a federal republic with Venezuela. We Venezuelans were a Federalist Republic. Our name was The United States of Venezuela. (Special note: dedicated to the stupid man who told me, that the United States of Venezuela was because we gave free materials to the gringos, and for thanks we gave him the name of the United States of Venezuela, so that the gringos would be happy with us. You inspired me to write this article, thank you).
We Venezuelans were a Federal Republic, for a very intelligent and very Venezuelan reason. Our last federalist president was the best and the greatest president in the history of our nation. Isaiah Medina Angarita. He was the president who turned Venezuela into the eighth world economic power per capita. The man who developed Venezuela.
This great Venezuelan was elected by the Congress of the United States of Venezuela, on April 28, 1941. In the federal republics, it is not the people who elect the president. The president is chosen by a number of citizens who do not exceed 500 individuals. The republics are afraid of the stupid. Because there are many (remember Facundo Cabral) and being a majority, in the direct democracies the stupid choose the president. This is a real fact, so much so that the great Albert Einstein said: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure of the first." In the United States, the president is elected by the Electoral College composed of 435 representatives. I
n Switzerland, the Executive Board is elected by 246 members of the Swiss National Assembly. Isaías Medina Angarita was elected president of the Federal Republic of the United States of Venezuela by the Venezuelan National Assembly with 120 votes. The voters were 137 individuals. AD, Copei, URD, the communists with the help of Pérez Jiménez's muscles overthrew our federal republic.
When Pérez Jiménez realized the historical mistake he made, by having helped to introduce direct voting. As a good rightist that Pérez Jiménez was, he did the only right thing he could have done to correct the stupidity of destroying our federal republic. He installed the dictatorship. (Look in the dictionary to understand what dictatorship is and how it differs from tyranny). Pérez Jiménez was a dictator who with his successes and failure managed to take Venezuela to be the sixth world economic power per capita.
Direct democracy does not choose the best citizen, in direct democracy, the best demagogue is elected.
The greatest demagogues in Venezuela were Betancourt, Caldera and everyone's favorite, Carlos Andrés Pérez. For many, CAP was the best president that Venezuela has had. These demagogues were leaders in the so-called "democracy" that they gained by exploiting prejudice and ignorance among ordinary people, stoking the passions of the crowd and closing reasoned deliberation. These demagogues annulled the established customs of political conduct, promised that they lived better with them. They did not manage to overcome the economic achievements of Pérez Jiménez.
Betancourt, Caldera and CAP, exploited the fundamental weakness in direct voting democracy, because people have the final power. The majority chooses the president and because our majority is always composed by the most ignorant. We Venezuelans have chosen by direct vote to the demagogues.
These demagogues created the poverty belts in Caracas. They promoted poverty in the citizen and collective backwardness, in order to have voters to be able to manipulate. They created the socialist paradise. They eliminated right-wing conservatives by calling them dictators, Goths, Gomecists or simply by disappearing them. What the demagogues never thought, is that by eliminating right-wing politicians, they created the perfect ground for a sector lower than the demagogy, the radical populist socialists.
The socialist populist is the political leader that represents and posits "the people" as a morally good force against "the elite", corrupt. The populist is the people and the people are wise. The people who never make a mistake.
The populist Chávez is the people and the people are Chávez. Chávez is the one who frees Venezuela from the Yankees, who fights against the businessmen, Chávez who calls right the demagogues Adecos and Copeyanos, Chavez who says that being rich is bad, Chavez who steals the rich to give to the poor It is clear that the decline of the populist create the ground for another social evil, even lower than populism, this is called kakistocracia.
The kakistocracy is a system of government that is administered by the worst, least qualified and the most unscrupulous citizens.
Venezuelan brothers we have to recover our federal republic. The kakistocrats will not go out with a vote or with marches. We have to take them out by force. We can not take out the kakistocrats and ride the demagogues or the populists. We must recover our republic.