Venezuela to nationalize food distribution

[Igel]

17. No, he has a playbook.

It's been done and failed so many different times--always enriching just the "right people" along the way while providing political points and supportive outrage--that the responses to failure, whole or partial, are scripted. He might even have already pre-recorded them so as to not have to interrupt meetings or whatever his hobby is.

Growing pains, with requests for patience as they catch those who are denying those in line what is already rightfully theirs.

Internal saboteurs. Dissidents. Provocations. Impediments thrown up by the bourgeoisie. With calls to root out the internal class enemies.

External enemies. With calls to root out the internal class enemies who are pawns of the external enemies, and the classy external enemies who are the prawns of internal dissident saboteurs.

Natural disasters. Shortages caused by internal puppet dissidents, provocations, and sabotage. Shortages and natural disasters caused by external enemies. Internal class provocations caused by external class sabotage. Natural shortages caused by growing provocateurs undergoing internal bourgeoisie external pains. Whatever.

String the words together randomly and even mangled and they usually have as much validity, once you've sat through enough philosophy of ___________ism classes to make sure that whatever's said is already pre-known and spinning at the proper angular velocity. What matters is that you hate the person/group/ideas/beliefs/entities currently en vogue for hatred so that your loyalty isn't doubted if you're in the "correct" party. Party is mother, party is father.