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MisterP

(23,730 posts)

5. economic strangulation, low oil prices, and just the ususal swing of elections

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 12:14 AM

Dec 2015

MUD won't get anything done since they all loathe one another and the social democrats and social Christians won't be able to deliver since they're either personalistic or predicated on old-style redistribution of oil money to party cadres only; MUD then can get red in the face and scream and PSUV can just graciously sit by and say "they won the election and they can have it" as they machine-gun each other's lawyers and reporters