Venezuela At The Verge Of K

US Intel sees it:

With dire shortages of basic goods, a looming foreign debt payment, horrific street crime and intransigent political divisions, Venezuela is in danger of collapsing into waves of deadly violence, U.S. intelligence officials warned Friday…

President Nicolas Maduro, a leftist, faces a possible recall vote sponsored by the opposition that he is maneuvering to block….

Recent polls have shown Maduro’s approval ratings have dropped as low as 15%, with a majority of Venezuelans blaming him for the country’s crisis and wanting to see his term truncated.

But the opposition has shown itself to be fragmented and unable to agree on a single strategy to oust the Maduro administration…

As this goes down, you will not want a father catching you making out with his daughter, women will seek strong men and try to monopolize their control over them through monogamy, normal guys will carry arms to kill their first bad guy and they will find it exhilarating, nobody will support outsiders and foreigners moving into their neighborhoods, and the idea of some governmental agency taking what you busted your ass for to give it away will be infuriating. I expect tolerance for the government goons on motorbikes who are beating people with rubber hoses will diminish as well, and that will signal a greater demand for freedom by the populace.

One strong selling point for r/K is that it will allow the politician who advances it the ability to win more easily. Opposition to Maduro is fractured in part because nobody has cast the fight as one of r vs K. If one politician planted r/K in the public consciousness, and made support for him into a personal identification of oneself as a K-strategist, a lot of people would seek to identify themselves as K-strategists by supporting that politician. r/K is priming, with it’s imagery of shortage, violence, and mortality. It is intellectual, with its support for the purposes of all of the K-virtues. And it is emotional, due to every human’s desire to see themselves as fit and capable of competition. Nobody wants to be the helpless rabbit.

Once r/K is out there, a lot of these fragmented opposition movements should coalesce, at least issue-wise.