As socialist candidates gain traction across the nation, three expats who fled countries under similar policies caution against what happens when socialism goes wrong — warning these governments can seek to "control people" and "scare them."Emmanuel Rincón, a Venezuelan expat who escaped his country in 2017, urged vigilance against democratic socialism in America."They like to call [it] democratic socialism, [but] there is no democratic socialism, because the main incentive of socialism is to take the money and take what the people have legitimately earned and give it to some people that have never worked," Rincón told Fox News Digital."That is not democratic in [any] way."EXPERT WHO FLED CUBA WARNS OF ‘VICIOUS CYCLE’ THAT WILL LEAD TO ‘COMMUNISTS IN DOUBLE DIGITS’ IN CONGRESSMembers of the Democratic Socialists of America gather outside a Trump-owned building on May Day on May 1, 2019, in New York City.
(Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America)Democratic socialism is defined by the Democratic Socialists of America as "a system where ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society." But those who’ve actually lived under socialist policies warn the promise of a "real voice" is fictional.According to Rincón, who lived his entire life under socialism in Venezuela until 2017, he’d have to wait 18 to 20 hours in line just to put gas in his car, which was heavily regulated."We could go to the grocer[y store] to buy meat and eggs or milk or whatever… but we wouldn't be able to find meat or milk, or bread… and you have to make lines for 6, 12 hours only to try to buy something...It's really that bad.
It was only because of the mismanagement of the socialist administration," he continued.I WATCHED CHICAGO PROMISE FOOD EQUITY.NOW MY NEIGHBORHOOD HAS EMPTY SHELVESLocals run carrying stolen merchandise during looting in Maracay, Aragua state, Venezuela, on June 27, 2017.
(Federico Parra/AFP)Rincón also touched on crimina...