Faux News and its fellow travelers are working overtime to foment a revolution, but it has very little to do with the motives of teabaggers of America's own colonial period. They seek a restoration of the Reagan monarchy (with Michael, Ron, or Maureen, but not Patty)...And while they are hating Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa Delgado, they should probably prepare a dartboard for Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia (famously depicted by Paul Muni). Juarez' terms in office (helped in part by Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson) is known as La Reforma. Replace Wikipedia's slopping editing with your own and insert "the United States'" and you can see where we are right now.
La Reforma represented the triumph of Mexico's liberal, federalist, anti-clerical, and pro-capitalist forces over the conservative, centralist, corporatist, and theocratic elements that sought to reconstitute a colonial system.
Justice Clarence Thomas would have had to retreat to the basement and watch Saving Private Ryan seven or eight times if he ever heard Benito say, Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz, meaning "Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace."
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