P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
O'Rourke, P. J. Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010.
Morales, a full blooded Indian in a country where whites of European origin had always dominated the politics was warned against running in an election that was likely to be rigged against him. Even if he won the plurality of the vote, Bolivian law provided for the Parliament with few of his sympathizers to elect the president. However, Morales made this famous statement in a country where the last two Presidents had been brought down by people rioting in the streets. Morales surprised everyone be not only winning the plurality but winning by a large majority.
This point of view is not held by the majority of politics thinker but it is the view of more than a few. Others argue that it is a response to decades of undemocratic conservative policies. Still others argue that it is a response to decades of undemocratic unfair and unequal results of policies—liberal or conservative. In America, the inequality gap that produced the publish at the time of his quotation had ben the result of 40 years of Democratic and Republican control; and policies, liberal and conservative,
Patrick Jake O'Rourke is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Since 2011, he has been a columnist at The Daily Beast.
