Yes, exactly, Fox was pretty much stalled out on most of his intended programmes, and everything is lined up to make it even harder for his successor ... the presidencia was not long ago the most powerful branch of government, if this trend continues it will soon be relegated to janitorial services for the others ... four out of ten diputados gain their seats according to party affiliation, based on proportional representation, so they don't directly represent a constituency of a specific area-based population, just partisan loyalty and whatever machinations they can come up with personally ... this magnifies the power of fringe parties and makes the country ungovernable to an extent, which is not a bad thing in many respects ... it does make it difficult to reform Pemex and other tangled webs, though
Dutch liberal conservatives, lol ... yes but are they neo-, paleo-, ordo-, radical-, hetero-, or what ... all the labels just become really really useless once they've been passed around ... but a study of their travels could lead a person to understanding of how difficult it is for our species to govern itself ... wikipedia has a great page on liberalism, from links off it you get to conservatism, i'd recommend through Burke, who as a classic liberal is considered the father of modern conservatism - en.wikipedia.org
Lincoln and Juárez were liberals of their time, good friends and natural allies, tried to help each other but both had wars going against conservative forces du jour ... this was before the labels had become quite so stretched, now we would see those cons as paleo-, as was then simply assumed |
