New Nicaragua constitution is law
As I said, some constitutions are too easy to change.
Rule by decree was all Hitler needed.
But let's be fair.
Hitler used his power, after all, to impose his Nazi agenda.
The result was a global disaster that engulfed even Germany.
But what will be Ortega's agenda?
And how far will he push it with this new grant of autocratic power?
A radical left that has got over the utopian dreams of Marxism may also have gotten over the delusions of collectivization, the command economy, and Socialist Man.
Leaving more realistic aims such as are typical of progressivism and social democracy, though perhaps in doses too strong for the Optimates to accept without at least grumbling about a coup.
Perhaps, under some circumstances, such doses can only be achieved and safeguarded through deft infringements on democracy, the latter being too easily manipulated by the plutes.
There is surely at least that much truth in the Leninist attitude toward the realities of bourgeois democracy.
Wait and see.
No concern of Uncle Sam, in any case.
Nor is Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina, Bolivia, or Uruguay.
Though that is not and never has been the way conservatives see it.
If anything, the idea of peaceful and relatively inoffensive, realistic, successful, and popular leftism scares them even more than communism.
Pat Robertson was far from the only one who hated Chavez enough to want to bring him down.
And why is there still a Cuban embargo?
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