Military coup in Bolivia

Except for all the violence, death and suffering it caused, sure.

Or that he didn't try to rig the system at all. Down the memory hole, as I said above.

Of course, this doesn't end here. I suspect economic strangulation is next.

I think @T.R has me on ignore, but I'm curious if they still stand by their assertion that the coup was a victory for democracy or human rights given not only the clear evidence that the will of the people was with Morales but that no clear case for the alleged rigging has been shown.

In other words they whole heartedly supported an uprising that was not only violent, but unjust and put someone in power who looked a whole lot more like a dictator than the socialist who was ousted.

At least a viable election did in fact occur, which I wasn't all that hopeful for.

Term limits are something that some countries have, and some don't. That issue was not the one on which the coup was justified.

What stuck in my gut though was how certain people, both here and in the political sphere, were so happy to overlook just what they were cheering for when it suited their worldview.

Had the Bolivia been a free market driven Western economy we'd have seen considerable discussion about precedent and the constitutionality or otherwise of events.

We'd have seen hand wringing and despair when the violence started and calls for the authorities to clamp down on the disorder. We'd have heard how supporting the coup made people wannabe anarchists.

Instead it was a socialist government and thus Morales was by default the villain of the piece, the actions of the rioters a necessary evil, regrettable but a price worth paying for the great new dawn of democracy over dictatorship.

Stacking courts is not, we are told, fraudulent.