委内瑞拉裔美国记者格尔曼尼亚·罗德里格斯·波洛（Germania Rodriguez Poleo）11岁时随家人移民美国，长大后曾为伯尼·桑德斯投票，以支持她家人曾为逃离而奋斗的某些社会主义政策——直到她意识到自己曾支持的事物中存在她所描述的“红旗警示”。
Germania Rodriguez Poleo, a Venezuelan-American journalist who emigrated to the United States when she was 11 years old, grew up to vote for Bernie Sanders in support of some of the socialist policies her family fought to escape — before she recognized what she described as the "red flags" of what she once supported. "Once I looked at the details, it looked more like Chavismo than Scandinavia[n socialism]," Poleo told Fox News Digital.
“当我仔细研究细节时，它看起来更像是查维斯莫，而不是斯堪的纳维亚式的社会主义，”波洛对福克斯新闻数字版（Fox News Digital）表示。
Chavismo, a socialist program "characterized by nationalism, a centralized economy, and an active military involved in public projects," was named after autocratic leader Hugo Chávez, the movement's founder.
查维斯莫是一种以民族主义、集中化经济以及积极参与公共项目的军队为特征的社会主义计划，以该运动的创始人、独裁领袖乌戈·查韦斯（Hugo Chávez）命名。
"Ever since, I've been trying to share that message with fellow young people who truly just fall for the misinformation," she continued. "[Venezuela has] done the suffering for you, we destroyed our country.
“从那以后，我一直试图向那些真正只是被错误信息所迷惑的年轻人传达这个信息，”她继续说道。
Venezuela is an example for the entire world of how a democratic country can vote itself into total collapse… One vote was enough to lose our country, and who knows if we'll ever get it back," Poleo said.
根据这些海外侨民的说法，社会主义将“控制人民”并“从美国夺走一切”：“[委内瑞拉]为你们承受了苦难，我们毁掉了自己的国家。委内瑞拉是全世界的一个例子，说明一个民主国家如何通过投票走向彻底崩溃……一次投票就足以让我们失去国家，而谁也不知道我们是否还能夺回它，”波洛说。
She went on to detail "the war over what the definition of socialism is," arguing that adding "democratic" before "socialism" creates a misleading distinction between socialist policies and the realities of life in Venezuela, Cuba and other countries. "Socialism and capitalism are mutually exclusive — and that's where [socialists are] lying to people," she continued.
她接着详细阐述了“关于社会主义定义的争论”，认为在“社会主义”前加上“民主”一词，是在制造社会主义政策与委内瑞拉、古巴及其他国家实际生活现实之间的误导性区分。
"If you really talk to these DSA types, they'll admit it — they think capitalism has failed and they want to try a different system… That's [where] they're lying. Social democracy is under capitalism.
“社会主义和资本主义是互斥的——而这就是[社会主义者]在对人们说谎的地方，”她继续说道。
Socialism wants to end capitalism and that is a very, very important distinction," Poleo revealed.
乔纳森·图利（JONATHAN TURLEY）：民主社会主义者想要按照他们的愿景重塑美国。这令人恐惧：“如果你真的和这些DSA成员交谈，他们会承认这一点——他们认为资本主义已经失败，他们想尝试一种不同的制度……那就是他们在说谎的地方。社会民主是在资本主义框架下的；社会主义则想要终结资本主义，这一点是非常、非常重要的区别，”波洛透露道。“我什么时候睁开眼睛的？当红旗太多时，”她补充道。
她继续解释她是如何开始支持桑德斯等候选人的，谈到了“移民经历”以及为了“融入”她周围的新西方文化所承受的压力。
"When did I open my eyes? When the red flags became too many," she added. She went on to explain how she came to support candidates like Sanders, touching on the "immigrant experience" and pressure to "assimilate" to the new Western culture that surrounded her. "It’s the same thing that's convincing young Americans all over the United States to view socialism favorably," she continued. "By the time I got to NYU, and I had fancy professors telling me that the problem wasn't socialism, but capitalism, unchecked capitalism, repeating the horrors of trickle-down economics. [I was] going to classes like ‘the politics of inequality,’ ‘Latina feminism.'
“这正是让全美各地的年轻美国人对社会主义持有好感的原因，”她继续说道。
This is what was building my world view, all taught by White American professors, of course," Poleo recalled.
观点：当学校拒绝教授社会主义的恐怖现实代价时，社会主义看起来很有吸引力。“等我到了纽约大学，我有那些花哨的教授告诉我说问题不在于社会主义，而在于资本主义，是不受约束的资本主义，重复了滴下经济学的恐怖。[我]上过诸如‘不平等的政治’、‘拉美女性主义’之类的课程。这正是塑造我世界观的东西，当然，都是由白人美国教授教授的，”波莱奥回忆道。
"I ended up believing their lie that what they're talking about is social democracy, like in Scandinavian countries, and not what happened in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua," she continued. Poleo, the narrator of "Escaping Venezuela," a documentary by Reason, said that the lives, experiences and memories that encompass the stories of immigrants are "not convenient" for the people who support socialism.
“我最终相信了他们的谎言，即他们所说的就是社会民主制，就像斯堪的纳维亚国家那样，而不是委内瑞拉、古巴和尼加拉瓜所发生的事情，”她继续说道。
波莱奥是《逃离委内瑞拉》纪录片的旁白，该片由Reason制作，她说，移民的生活、经历和记忆所构成的故事对支持社会主义的人来说“不方便”。
"Our story and our tragedy is not convenient for people who say they care about victims of dictatorships or migrants… They don't like our story because it shows what happens in the real world when an anti-Western, anti-U.S., supposedly anti-imperialist government gets to power and establishes socialist policies," Poleo noted.
今天的左翼人士对共产主义危险地错误认识。只需倾听幸存者的声音。”我们的故事和我们的悲剧对那些自称关心独裁政权受害者或移民的人来说是不方便的……他们不喜欢我们的故事，因为它展示了当一个反西方、反美国、所谓的反帝国主义政府上台并实施社会主义政策时，现实世界会发生什么，”波莱奥指出。
"They want to say that's not real socialism, and they don't want to listen to us. I mean, they call themselves progressives while silencing the voices of the people who understand these systems the best," she stated. "I want young Americans, my fellow young Americans, to understand that Venezuela did not have to end this way… Listen to the victims.
“他们想说那不是真正的社会主义，也不想听我们说话。我的意思是，他们自称为进步派，却在沉默那些最了解这些体系的人的声音，”她说道。
Don't insist [o]n the idea in the book that has never been put to work the ideal way that you're still waiting for. This is socialism.
“我想让年轻的美国人，我的同胞年轻美国人，明白委内瑞拉本不必以这种方式结束……听取受害者的声音。不要坚持书中从未以理想方式付诸实践的理念，而你仍在等待的那种理想。这就是社会主义。这就是在承诺平等的乌托邦小书之外所发生的事情……例子就在那里。别再视而不见了，” 波洛说。
This is what happens outside of the utopia little book that promises equality… The examples are there. Stop looking away," Poleo said.