Re: Hugo Chavez Death Pool Thread
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It seems that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is on the verge of accumulating through purely democratic means sweeping increases in power in order to deliver his promise of "Bolivarian socialism" to the people.
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It also seems that American presidents have already accumulated through purely democratic means sweeping increases in power in order to deliver their promise of "national security" to the people.
And it's been going on for at least 150 years with too few people noting or caring.
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Indeed. Let me be the first to refrain from any sort of "American exceptionalism" - but by any sort of objective observation, we're a far, far way off from a banana republic.
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