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Another proof? Look at South America. It's the live experiment, running right now in front of us.

For two decades, the continent was the showroom of 21st-century socialism. Chávez, Maduro, Morales, Correa, Kirchner, Petro. Endless promises, endless crises, endless enemies to blame.

Then voters turned. Argentina elected Milei, who inherited 211% inflation and brought it down to around 34%. Bolivia ended nearly twenty years of socialist MAS rule. Chile elected José Antonio Kast with 58% of the vote. Ecuador kept Noboa. Peru moved right. And Colombia, after four years of Gustavo Petro, elected Abelardo de la Espriella.

Look closely at Colombia, because it's the clearest case. Petro's flagship policy was "Total Peace": negotiating with guerrillas and narco organizations, treating armed groups as political partners. De la Espriella did the opposite. Within weeks he ordered a "total offensive" against the ELN guerrilla and the FARC dissidents and ruled out any negotiation with what he calls narco-terrorism. Daily arrests. Strikes against the Clan del Golfo, the country's largest cartel. Same country, same army, same cartels. Different will.

That's the question that should keep you up at night. If crime can be confronted the moment someone actually decides to confront it, why wasn't it?

My answer: because the problem was the business model.

A left that solves problems makes itself unnecessary. Its entire apparatus, the parties, the unions, the NGOs, the consultants, the international conferences, the careers built on "managing" poverty, violence and inequality, lives off the problem continuing. Solve crime and you lose the fear that justifies your programs. Solve inflation and you lose the state that controls prices. Solve poverty and you lose your clients. I'm not saying they plotted it in a back room. I'm saying every incentive points the same way, and people follow incentives. A movement that lives off chaos will never be in a hurry to end it. Its status, its funding, its standard of living depend on the problem never going away.

And that's what is collapsing today. Across South America, voters looked at decades of problems that were "managed" but never solved, and they fired the managers. Brazil is the last big piece. If it follows, the five largest economies on the continent will all be governed from the right.

The lesson for the rest of us, for Americans voting in a few days, for Europeans watching their countries drift: a problem that is never solved is not always a failure. Sometimes it's the product.

Free people solve problems because they have something to lose when problems persist. Collectivists manage problems because they have something to lose when problems end.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@DanBurmawy Ask which is subordinate to the other: Islam, incl Quran, Hadith & Sharia, or the Constitution? If the Constitution is supreme and Islam is subordinate, then are you saying the teachings & laws in Islam are Illegal in the US and that you would support enforcement of that?

[JP @JPBellarado]

@DarrigoMelanie You can’t prove something that isn’t detected & measured. No voter ID, no citizenship to register & mail in ballots are all methods that don’t allow fraud detection. If you can’t detect it you can’t measure it. If you can’t measure fraud you can’t claim election integrity

[JP @JPBellarado]

@BBKogan Really? The bill mainly expanded work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents and narrowed noncitizen eligibility. Liberals focus on inputs, how much we spend, whereas conservatives focus on outputs, do we get the outcomes we want.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@FutureAZA Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@StephenMoore It would be worthwhile to add the budget deficit to tax revenue in the chart.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@TheKevinDalton Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@MollyJongFast And what about Michael Bloomberg $573 million, George Soros $321 million, Tom Steyer $278 million, Dustin Moskovitz $161 million, Reid Hoffman $106 million? You only care if it helps people you disagree with.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@MaxFlugrath Let me fix it for you… Weird how Democrats always resist election integrity when even the U.S. Supreme Court rules 8-1

[JP @JPBellarado]

@californiapost Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@DarrigoMelanie It’s very telling that election integrity is seen as a problem for Democrats. There, fixed it for you.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@abc7newsbayarea Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@latimes Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@kron4news Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@NorthBayNews Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@sfchronicle Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@VanHollenForMD Ask him: Which is subordinate to the other: Islam, incl Quran, Hadith & Sharia, or the Constitution? If the Constitution is supreme and Islam is subordinate, then are you saying the teachings & laws in Islam are Illegal in the US and that you would support enforcement of that?

[JP @JPBellarado]

@sfchronicle Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.

[JP @JPBellarado]

@DailyMail Tragic. If FSD was on, then the question should be … would the outcome have been any different if the vehicle was driven manually? Would a human driver been able to have avoided the tragic death of the pedestrian? If not, don’t blame FSD.