by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

It’s not about being mean or any such thing.

It’s more-fundamental than that.

Look at what’s going on in Venezuela right now.  Rather than fight people are fleeing over the border claiming they must go because life in Venezuela has become intolerable and it will be better somewhere else.

Sorry, but nope, that’s not what’s going to happen.

The people who live there caused the situation there.  They voted for it originally and they demanded it.  They wanted socialism, demanded it, accepted it, and they got it.  It blew up their nation despite Venezuela being one of the richest nations in the world when it comes to natural resources.  Rather than go take care of business (yes, I understand that could get nasty) they now want to run away — but the problem is that they’re bringing their culture and demands to be taken care of with them into the other place.

The correct answer to such is for all of Venezuela’s bordering nations to seal their border with their military — and yes, I do mean shoot anyone who tries to illegally cross out of Venezuela.  However, at the same time, the humanitarian thing to do is to hand out, at the border, rifles and boxes of ammunition to all who wish to take them and turn them inward, deposing those who are causing the problem.

In the end all government exists only with the consent of the governed.  That principle is tested to some degree when the oppressed have no weapons but that problem is easily fixed.  I’m perfectly good with arming any of the people (not the military) in any of these nations; fly over them and drop crates of guns under parachutes out the back of a C130 if you want.  That works perfectly well for me.  Arm the people and tell them to go home and take care of business.

If they won’t do it then while it’s very sad you cannot take them in.  The simple fact of the matter is that the policies, politicians and problems in these nations exist because of the people who live in them.  Yes, those people may have made grave errors (such as giving up their weapons or never insisting on a 2nd Amendment style protection in the first place) but those errors are repairable at low cost.

What cannot be fixed by anyone else is attitude and determination.  That has to come from within, and if it does come from within then those people can, should and indeed must take back their own nation.

If they won’t then what those people seek is worse than a hand-out — they will come into your nation and demand the same policies that blew up theirs.  If they don’t get it they will agitate until they do.

Your nation will be destroyed just as theirs was if you let them in.

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