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Uncle: "So you know that Evo guy from Bolivia? He pretended to be a communist but actually the economy did great under him. Weird thing" (hexbear.net)

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 61 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

Also one of those times the electoral college didn't even decide things and the Supreme Court came in to pick the winner of the election

Of course none of the justices appointed by George HW Bush recused themselves from the case and every one of them ruled in favor of his son, George W Bush and that's not even getting into how governor jeb rigged the Florida results for his brother

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

the electoral college didn't even decide things and the Supreme Court came in to pick the winner of the election

SCOTUS deciding to stop the count only mattered because the state was Winner Take All.

that's not even getting into how governor rigged the Florida results for his brother

Florida was only the most glaring example. Ohio, Arizona, Georgia, Gore's own home state of Tennessee... There was ratfucking everywhere. But, just like with Nixon in '60, it wasn't just a Republican problem. Gore wasn't willing to open up the can of worms that encompasses how the vote gets counted.