Posted on 11/17/2025 2:57:42 PM PST by Rummyfan
On Friday, I mentioned that the good people of Chile would go to the polls on Sunday to vote for a new president among other things.
As I mentioned, the country's 39-year-old socialist president Gabriel Boric is not very popular, and his approval rating has been around 30% or lower throughout his entire presidency. A lot of that has to do with crime. Homicide rates doubled on his watch, and organized crime, particularly from Venezuela, exploded in Chile. Mass migration from Venezuela — and Haiti — changed entire neighborhoods in the country seemingly overnight and put pressure on infrastructure. The economy is stagnant, his administration is wrought with scandal, and his attempts at constitutional reform failed miserably.
The people are beyond done with him and his leftist ideology, and despite what the MSM headlines tell you, they proved it on Sunday.
The way the Chilean presidential elections work is that people vote in November, and the top two candidates from any party, assuming those candidates do not receive 50% of the vote, meet head-to-head for a run-off in December. This year, the left wing of Chilean politics was represented by an actual Communist, Jeannette Jara. She was Boric's Minister of Labor and Social Welfare. She won about 27% of the vote, receiving a larger percentage than any other candidate.
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On the right, you had numerous candidates hoping to reroute a country on the wrong track, which led to a split vote for most of the remaining percentage — 73%-ish. Even so, former congressman José Antonio Kast, a pro-U.S., pro-Donald Trump, tough on immigration social conservative managed to get over 25% of the vote...
Unless there is some sort of major meltdown in the system, Kast will likely be Chile's next president.
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Meanwhile in NY, Seattle, Portland, Minn….
Most of them dumped their free-stuff loving maggots on the U.S. Now they can sweep all the socialism and communism out of their country.
Experience is a dear school but these fools will learn no other way.
Chileans are some very good people. Glad to see it.
Crime follows the left as flies follow Dorkbama.
You’ve never seen the other side, what the Communista’s did. Let’s just say everything isn’t even in a civil way but payback is a bitch!
It’s not over until it’s over with the Commies. Manduro is the master of voter rigging, which has kept him in office. Let’s hope the Chileans will not be using Manduro’s crooked voting machines.
Bkmk
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