{"id":1635962,"date":"2022-09-08T05:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635962"},"modified":"2022-09-08T05:04:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:04:52","slug":"what-chiles-leader-can-teach-old-joe-about-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-chiles-leader-can-teach-old-joe-about-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Chile\u2019s Leader Can Teach Old Joe About Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-chiles-leader-can-teach-old-joe-about-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The 36-year-old socialist bows to the will of the people instead of demonizing his political opponents<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tU.S. president Joe Biden and Chilean president Gabriel Boric \/ edited from Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/washington-free-beacon-editors\/\" title=\"Posts by Washington Free Beacon Editors\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Washington Free Beacon Editors<\/a> \u2022 September 8, 2022 4:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On the eve of Chile&#8217;s constitutional referendum on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) gave his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/berniesanders\/status\/1566074577511501826?s=11&amp;t=K9YlzSv-ZShjoBTTMpwkbA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsement<\/a> for the new national charter. Chileans, the Vermont socialist tweeted, have a chance to replace &#8220;the old anti-democratic one written by the dictator Pinochet with a new one guaranteeing rights to health, housing, education, and a habitable planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that an overwhelming majority of Chileans\u2014more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/04\/world\/americas\/chile-constitution-no.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60 percent<\/a>\u2014want to keep the &#8220;old anti-democratic&#8221; constitution for now. We know this because they all participated in the democratic activity known as voting.<\/p>\n<p>This must be a disappointment to Sanders and the other socialists in Congress. The American left had placed so much hope in their Chilean comrades, who first demanded a new constitution in 2019. As Sanders&#8217;s foreign policy adviser, Matt Duss, put it in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattduss\/status\/1200396413903015937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video advertisement<\/a> that year for his boss in the Democratic presidential primary, &#8220;Across the world right now\u2014in Chile, Haiti, Argentina, Lebanon, Iraq, Hong Kong, and elsewhere\u2014we see thousands of people rising up against political corruption and economic inequality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a while it looked like all that activism would pay off. Chileans elected a socialist president, Gabriel Boric, in 2021. But the thing about democratic politics is that voters are prone to change their minds.<\/p>\n<p>Here there is a valuable lesson for the Democratic Party in America. Faced with a blow-out vote on the constitution, which was defeated by a 24-point margin, President Boric pledged to reshuffle his cabinet. He acknowledged the loss. &#8220;As president of the republic, I take this message with great humility,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/04\/world\/americas\/chile-constitution-no.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on Monday after the results were in. &#8220;We must listen to the voice of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contrast Boric&#8217;s humility with the arrogance of President Joe Biden last week at Philadelphia&#8217;s Independence Hall. In that campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/01\/biden-slams-attacks-on-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a>, the American president said that his fellow citizens who support Donald Trump, believe that abortion is murder, and oppose gay marriage are threats to &#8220;the very soul of this country.&#8221; In other words, most conservatives and Republicans are enemies of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Boric could have taken a page from the Biden playbook, delivering a speech in Santiago against a backdrop of spooky red lighting in which he derided Chileans for tacitly endorsing the country&#8217;s former dictator. He chose instead to acknowledge, and to respect, the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, Boric demonstrated that a 36-year-old South American socialist has a better grasp of democracy than the leader of the free world.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration The 36-year-old socialist bows to the will of the people instead of demonizing his political opponents  U.S. president Joe Biden and Chilean president Gabriel Boric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}