Thread by @BenBurgis, Some points about Bolivia that should be obvious: 1. Anyone whose take [...]

Ben Burgis

BenBurgis

Some points about Bolivia that should be obvious:

1. Anyone whose take includes the phrases "judges" or "term limits" is just changing the subject. The court decision striking down term limits happened years ago. Morales was removed *now* because (contra the OAS& #39; evidence-free assertion) he won democratic re-election.

(And, being real about this, because of his refusal to allow private extraction of Bolivia& #39;s lithium reserves. I don& #39;t expect anyone 65 years in the future to find that connection any more mysterious than we find the one between the United Fruit Company and the Arbenz coup.)

2. That a massive chunk of the population was organically opposed to Morales--not the massive chunk that seems to have won the election, but a massive chunk nevertheless--is not a disanalogy to e.g. the Allende coup in Chile in 1973.

3. Neither is the fact that some labor unions aligned with the opposition.

That shouldn& #39;t be surprising. These are massively complicated, deeply divided societies.

4. The hypocrisy of Reasonable Centrists in the United States saying legal means couldn& #39;t be pursued there because the high court there is full of Morales loyalists, etc., is off the charts. I& #39;ll leave that one, as they say in academic papers, "as an exercise for the reader."

5. Morales is flawed. Guess what? So& #39;s Bernie Sanders, and if you can& #39;t imagine what a "well it& #39;s complicated" take might look like after a coup against a President Sanders, you don& #39;t have much imagination.

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