Zimbabwe’s Present Is America’s Future
by Ian Mosley
Hyper-inflation has now hit the “paradise” of Zimbabwe, the brutal Marxist dictatorship of the senile Robert Mugabe, where runaway inflation has led to complete economic disaster. Zimbabwe’s Central Bank has introduced a new 50,000-dollar banknote after it conceded that the galloping and uncontrolled inflation would soon shoot up to a record 800 percent.
The new $50,000 bill is a kind of bilious purple, and at least it’s printed on both sides of the bill. (Some of Zimbabwe’s recent currency has only been printed on one side of the paper because the presses ran out of ink and there is no more to be had, except for precious and scarce foreign exchange.) Officially, the new $50,000 note is worth about fifty cents.
Zimbabwe is in the desperate grip of a total economic crisis characterized by triple-digit inflation, soaring poverty levels, an unemployment rate hovering at over 70% and chronic shortages of fuel and basic goods like cornmeal, milk, and gasoline. The country’s ruler, octogenarian “Comrade Bob” Mugabe, is now generally conceded by most observers in the international diplomatic community to be completely deranged, and yet he holds his grip on power by sheer terror. His thugs have murdered thousands of his own people and recently drove an estimated two million slum dwellers in Bulawayo and Harare (Salisbury) into the bush in a kind of “urban renewal” exercise called “Operation Mumbatsawina,” Shona for “Take Out The Trash.” The White population is now estimated to be below 30,000 as the last of the once prosperous and productive White farmers are driven from their land and out of the country.
When the once prosperous and healthy Rhodesia became “Zimbabwe” in 1980, the local dollar was roughly at parity with the pound sterling, or about 2.40 in US dollars. Zimbabwean currency has been completely worthless for years, because the country is now a wasteland and an international basket case that produces nothing at all and has no foreign currency reserves left to buy anything. The few remaining functional automobiles are now parked along the sides of roads, having been abandoned when they ran out of gas. There has been no gasoline in the stations for months. Zimbabwe now seems to be returning to a primitive pre-White man state; grass is growing in the streets and wild animals are coming to eat it, government offices and facilities are deserted, the telephones are permanently out of order, electricity is sporadic and the death rate from AIDS is in the tens of thousands monthly. Mugabe is in the process of selling off the last of the country’s mineral resources to China.
Perhaps the most alarming thing about all this is that the same Marxist socialists, who rule Zimbabwe today, share a philosophy with a large number of university professors and Democrat politicians. As America fills up with Third World immigrants (who traditionally vote for the furthest left politicians), it seems inevitable that we will have our own version of Zimbabwe in the US on a much larger scale.