"}I did reblog that post yesterday saying liberal pundits support the Bolivian coup Even Though they have spent the last few years gnashing their teeth about “foreign interference” in America’s political process
And obviously I think that’s a fair enough criticism or I wouldn’t have reblogged it
But at the same time I will remind everyone that just three short years ago “if the military ejected Trump, that would be totally chill” was not really a wildly deviant position among the bluecheck crowd, and the main reason that talk’s gone away is they all realised it’s not going to happen
If I’m going to look at “middle-class” Bolivian Twitter users respond to a video of literally armed troops rolling down city streets in an army truck (because you know, it’s a fucking coup) with word garbage like “mi Bolivia unida!” and “mi Bolivia libre!” then I think it’s only fair that one of my takeaways from that should be to remember that, as much as there are South Americans who are capable of seeing that spectacle and thinking “libre”, there are also, like, staff writers for NYT and WaPo who are capable of the exact same thing
The upper middle/professional class really is just like that! It’s not some weird phenomenon that’s unique to countries where they actually have coups