Reply #58: The numbers are what makes it "interesting" [View All]

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I guess the thing that piques my interest is the fact that 3.5 million people signed the recall petition. To me, those are staggering numbers. According to the US Dept of state, the population is 24,600,000 http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1859.htm (I hope I didn't screw up the link...), and assuming roughly 60% are of voting age, that leaves call it 15,000,000 to vote, and 20% of those of eligible age signed a recall petition, SOMETHING has got to be going on.

I mean, revolutionary or not, is Chavez doing the right thing? Let's just assume that the signatures are valid, as the Carter Center did say, though with caveats. Didn't Marx say that revolution is a constant state, and that it never ceases? Has Chavez become corrupt? The bravado of a "100 year war" against the bushistas is great TV, but, was it more for his own people than our regime? Just speculating that maybe once he got into office, power, doing its old thing, corrupted him...