Chileans overwhelmingly reject Commie Constitution

[1srelluc]

Chile voters overwhelmingly reject left-wing constitution: ‘a path of hope’

Chilean voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to overhaul a 41-year-old charter with a constitution that would have been among the most progressive in the world.

With 96% of the votes counted in Sunday's plebiscite, the rejection camp had nearly 62% support compared to more than 38% for approval amid what appeared to be a heavy turnout with long lines at polling states.

62% voted to reject the absolutely terrible constitution.....I guess they remembered the severe leftist rioting of a few years ago.

 

[JGalt]

Laughing in Pinochet.

 

[Flash]

They know that you can vote Leftest in but the only way to get rid of them is with is kill them.

Something our stupid US Moon Bats never seem to understand.

 

[1srelluc]

Laughing in Pinochet.

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Sigh....Sorta disappointed in no Pinochet.

 

[JGalt]

Sigh....Sorta disappointed in no Pinochet.

No spare parts for those old Bell UH-1 copters either.

I miss those things.

 

[eagle7-31]

Chile dodges a socialist bullet

In today's happy news, Chile's voters have decisively, overwhelmingly rejected a full blown socialist rewrite of their 40-year constitution that otherwise has served them so well. According to the lefty U.K. Guardian (whose accou...

www.americanthinker.com

or are we headed to a one party far leftist state like Thief in Chief Biden and his minions want.

 

[eagle7-31]

Chile dodges a socialist bullet

In today's happy news, Chile's voters have decisively, overwhelmingly rejected a full blown socialist rewrite of their 40-year constitution that otherwise has served them so well. According to the lefty U.K. Guardian (whose accou...

www.americanthinker.com

or are we headed to a one party far leftist state like Thief in Chief Biden and his minions want.

In today's happy news, Chile's voters have decisively, overwhelmingly rejected a full-blown socialist rewrite of their 40-year constitution that otherwise has served them so well.

According to the lefty U.K. Guardian (whose account was less biased than that of the New York Times):

Chileans have voted comprehensively against a new, progressive constitution that had been drafted to replace the 1980 document written under Gen Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
With 96% of the votes counted in Sunday’s plebiscite, the rejection camp had 61.9% support compared with 38.1% for approval amid what appeared to be a heavy turnout with long lines at polling states. Voting was mandatory.
Senator Ximena Rincón, one of the leaders of the reject campaign, described the victory as “clear and emphatic”, and called for a new constitutional convention to be convened.

Wow, two to one! That's a hell of a margin.

Suffice to say, what the Chilean voters rejected were all the siren song promises of the left -- free health care, free education, free abortion on demand (something that dates to the Bolsheviks), animal rights, tree rights, other greenie nonsense, state control of resources, gender parity in government, transgender privileges, government pensions with an expropriation of private pensions, government jobs to anyone who wanted one, a "plurinational" state with Indian tribes on an equal footing to the government, and a total loss of individual rights to come with it. The president could run for consecutive terms, the way Hugo Chavez used to do, and the Senate would be eliminated, as a thing of the past.


In short, they voted 'no' on turning their country into a socialist hellhole.

According to the New York Times:

Chilean voters rejected a 170-page, 388-article proposal that would have legalized abortion, mandated universal health care, required gender parity in government, given Indigenous groups greater autonomy, empowered labor unions, strengthened regulations on mining and granted rights to nature and animals.

In total, it would have enshrined over 100 rights into Chile’s national charter, more than any other constitution in the world, including the right to housing, education, clean air, water, food, sanitation, internet access, retirement benefits, free legal advice and care “from birth to death.”
And it would have eliminated the Senate, strengthened regional governments and allowed Chilean presidents to run for a second consecutive term.
The text included commitments to fight climate change and protect Chileans’ right to choose their own identity “in all its dimensions and manifestations, including sexual characteristics, gender identities and expressions.”

It was written by leftists, given the legislative composition, and for leftists, having every item on the leftist "to do" list on it.

According to the Times:

Leftists, who won more than two-thirds of the seats, took full control of the process; they did not need a single vote from conservative convention members to approve additions to the proposal.
As a result, said Ricardo Lagos, the center-left president of Chile from 2000 to 2006, the proposal was “extremely partisan.”

One of those. Yes, we in the states are familiar with the durability of such mono-party ram-throughs, impossible to pass by compromise with multiple parties, triggering the "by any means necessary" ethic of the left.

Not surprisingly, it was loudly endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Regina Tlaib, Noam Chomsky, Jeremy Corbyn, Gustavo Petro, and other prominent radical leftwingers from other countries, some of whom wouldn't want to live in such a place themselves if they weren't in charge of it.

What it resembled was the constitutional rewrite that Hugo Chavez rammed through in the early 2000s in Venezuela, leftists rewriting the entire rules of a society in order to "transform" it to their leftist ideal.

The media was uniformly biased in reporting the current Chilean constitution as the "Augusto Pinochet" constitution. That it was written at the end of the Pinochet era, in preparation for a free Chile outside the confines of the military government (which by the way, was itself constitutionally done, something the lefties have never accepted), is probably one of the biggest media distortions about the current constitution that was supposed to be so bad. It was a leftist propaganda lie, not a factual description. That Chile's free-market constitution has since been amended, and amended, and amended, usually by center-left but democratic and freely elected governments in the post-Pinochet era, is never noticed. Calling it the "Pinochet" constitution is a total misnomer, given how often center-left governments have changed it around with the consent of the governed.

But unlike a lot of Latin American governments, which change their constitutions (as one Nicaraguan friend explained to me years back) "the way we change our underwear," Chile's constitution did endure at its core, making Chile a model of stability. Its core free market and individual rights principles never changed. That's why Chile has remained so stable compared to its neighbors.

Meanwhile, the current constitution brought about prosperity to Chile as the years passed and the rabid left yelled about Chile's free market reforms "failing":

 

[skye]

Good on Chile for rejecting the commie Constitution!

Very bad on Chile for having elected a communist President.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Chile voters overwhelmingly reject left-wing constitution: ‘a path of hope’

Chilean voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to overhaul a 41-year-old charter with a constitution that would have been among the most progressive in the world.

With 96% of the votes counted in Sunday's plebiscite, the rejection camp had nearly 62% support compared to more than 38% for approval amid what appeared to be a heavy turnout with long lines at polling states.

62% voted to reject the absolutely terrible constitution.....I guess they remembered the severe leftist rioting of a few years ago.

The problem with that Constitution was that it's gone above and beyond what a constitution should be. It also doesn't seem to take into account different view points.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Good on Chile for rejecting the commie Constitution!

Very bad on Chile for having elected a communist President.

Someone told you they're both "commie", so you instantly hate them both. Well done.