Posted on 09/02/2006 8:32:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Obrador needs to know when to give up. If he really cared about his country, which he apparently doesn't, he'd accept that the majority don't want him in office.
If Obrador's con doesn't work, he's toast, and will remain so unless the ruling party fouls up.
Each candidate are different versions of Left Wing.
The Marxism and corruption in Mexico is deep and wide.
Who ever wins, it is all the same just different versions.
Just glad to be a Border bot. At least I won't have to jump on board when it is to late like many will.
That's depressing.
And what am I to note of your spelling?
serious/series. hugh too.
I hate those memes.
Hence the (note).
The good professor - the "Mexico expert" - is sadly wrong. Even a package of bribes in the form of welfare programs won't help; Mexico already has welfare programs up one side and down the other, along with the high taxes that go with a dysfunctional semi-socialist economy that relies upon government redistribution of the available portions left of its otherwise squandered or stolen income. Fox was trying to change this, and many Mexicans seemed to appreciate the effort.
This whole thing is about the attempt of the radical left to seize power. It wouldn't matter what "social programs" were in place. They did it in Bolivia regardless of the social programs, and in fact paved the way for their coup by assassinating community leaders and people who worked in these social programs. And then they attacked the presidency, stirring up their following of ignorant natives, people in the coca trade, and unionists by boldly and calmly attacking the rule of law and its symbols, particularly the presidency. The president ended up having to crawl around in the presidential residence because of the gunfire coming through the windows and was finally taken to the airport hidden in the back of a car. Now that, to the left, was a really satisfying result.
People say that the situations of Mexico and Bolivia are different, and that is true in the sense that Mexico appears to be much more established and have a smaller proportion of the easily manipulated indigenous population. But to me the most similar thing is the boldness of the left in simply declaring that they don't plan to play by the rules - and the powerlessness, so far, of a state based on the rule of law to stop them.
Vincente Fox had a major chance to institute his promised economic and social reforms to reduce the power of the oligarchy down there and give the campesinios a better opportunity in life and he punted.
Obrador is no Pancho Villa or Emiliano Zapata, but he is going to push the whole thing over into a full drop revolution.
Exactly. The media coverage of this says nothing about what this really is: typical communist playbook - create strife, civil unrest, people in the streets, destabilize government, upset the civil order and rush in during the confusion to establish a communist paradise.
As long as it's by annexation, and we extend our Constitution, rather than subverting it by treaties that make us accept Canada's constitutionally enshrined political correctness, it's fine with me.
Post-9/11 I decided I am an American Imperialist.
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