Reply #99: Quite a catch-22 there. People are so happy with constitution

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they keep electiong the leader of the party they associate it with.

I don't think there's any evidence that Chavez is winning because of a faulty constitution. It seems to be quite the opposite. He's being rewarded because people are so happey with it.

By the way, remember the coup in 2002? The coup's first act: tear up the constitution. Chavez's government's first act upon returning: reaffirm the constitution.

In The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, there is the absolutely BRILLIANT scene where the Coup Attorney General -- the guy who tore up the constitution -- gets read his constitutional rights by the returning government.

THAT, northax, is the truest test of the constitution. It survived the coup. It's not a meaningless document. This is obvious.

"elect someone dictator for life" -- you realize how silly that sounds, don't you? (BTW, for the record, I think America is very fortunate that, in 1932, FDR was "elected dicator for life" for the first of four times.)