Propagandists at work: Bolivia

Don’t know... was he legitimately elected?

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was he legitimately elected?

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Disputed election. Apparently there were irregularities.

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And why are any of you surprised by that headline? Authoritarian leftists defend other authoritarian leftists.

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Bernie and Omar both are blaming Western imperialists and are defending him and against the coup. That's all I need to know about this guy.

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my progressive pages are PISSED at this

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And that's a key difference between the left and right.

I took note of the activity in Bolivia, and I see the propagandists doing what they do, but I couldn't care less if Bolivia is run by socialists or not.

Leftists, however, are outraged when a leftist is removed.

Morales tried to run again, when it was explicitly not allowed by the Constitution. A court ruled that running for office was a human right, and therefore the section of the constitution was invalid. Morales ran again, and won by a large percentage of the vote, but the percentage by which he won changed from 7% when 80% of the votes were counted to 10% after a certain number of days (I forget the exact details). I think the 10% threshold related to whether there would be a run-off.

Regardless, whoever is the leftist candidate in the next election has a high likelihood of winning, because there Morales was extremely popular among the working-class in Bolivia. Despite being a socialist, Bolivia's GDP grew by upwards of 200% since Morales took over, and the poverty level decreased by 10% or so. Bolivarianism will remain extremely popular in Latin America for some time, in my view, as the disconnect between the rich and the poor is so extreme that anyone who even expresses passing interest in the working-class will be popular.

Bernie and AOC are pissed, so must be a good thing