Reply #91: Excellent, reality-based, experiential post & welcome to DU!!1 [View All]

Thank you for your first hand knowledge, as opposed to the posts that have been WISHING FOR VIOLENCE (far far away from where THEY live).

Yes, there is a small, vocal contingent here of theoretical idealists who see through a filter. Funny, also, how, idealists that they supposedly are, they will ATTACK anybody who attempts to present a different point of view.

The U.S. & the Mexican political system and party alignments are NOT the same. The PAN is NOT the Rethug party. FOX/CALDERON is NOT Shrub. FOX refused to join Shrub's aggression in violating the sovereignty of a country. FOX exhibited restraint in dealing with the civil disobedience in Oaxaca. This Mexican outcome is NOT our 2000.

A post in another thread responded to the description of the relatively placid whistle-blowing, opposition (that ceased while EVERYBODY sang the national anthem): "Sounds like democracy to me." That's it.

Repeating, observers from the European Union and other international entities found that whatever fraud there was was not sufficient to change the result. And to deflate, yet again, another of the canards being repeated endlessly here: The PRD protesters are a MINORITY OF A MINORITY. They do NOT represent THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO. In fact, the PRD has been losing supporters the more AMLO became more intransigent.