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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the party not having a succesor figure was an important problem, that instead of fixing they went for the stupid shorsighted route, which gave oxygen to every ultra-reactionary force, local and international.

Do I care about term limits in the face of seething ultra-reactionaries doing everything they could to revert back MAS policies, culminating in a literal coup and the subsecuent massacres? Of course not.

Evo never lost a presidential election, and his party did more to politically mobilize people who were up-to-that-moment "non-voters" or blocked from it in several ways, than any other party. Why? Because the other parties represent the interests of powerful minorities. The last thing they wanted is poor disenfranchised people voting.

Do I care about spineless, reactionary comprador journalists, judiciaries and other burocrats? LMAO. That whole scum did everything to maintain the pre-Evo status-quo conditions of Bolivia. Latin America is scourged with them, my country included. Dipshits that could have fitted perfectly in the US Confederacy, for example.

They are a minority that clinges to immense power that has never been democratized. You can't vote for who runs Fox News nor the CNN, nor the Supreme Court, and yet those people have more power over the destiny of a country than any Congressmember.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 59 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Evo never lost a presidential election

The thing Americans always seem to forget when they talk about "Not a real democracy".

We've had three elections (debateably closer to five or six) of the last eight decided by an electoral college appointing a popular loser to the Presidency, in a country that heavily restricts enfranchisement and barely breaks a 60% participation rate on a good year.

Bolivia had north of 80% turnout and Evo was winning in landslides consistently.

The President of the appointed regional minority party is pointing at the wildly popular leader and claiming the other isn't a liberal democracy.

Really soviet-hmm moment.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really soviet-hmm moment.

the sdf lib is simply thinking in terms of us-foreign-policy

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

100-com thats why they think social imperialist nordic countries are heckin chungus democracies but MAS was eroding democracy in Bolivia

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now check the turnout % before the 2005 election, never north of 75%