https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2012/02/26/i-predict-that-the-syrian-regime-will-win-the-syrian-referendum/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:47:23 -0400<![CDATA[Oh, yes: they&#8217;re having a referendum &#8220;to limit the government&#8217;s powers.&#8221; Those aren&#8217;t literal quotes; those are scare quotes, mostly because I do not particularly believe that the Assad regime has any intention of reducing its power over the Syrian people, and I do not think that you should particularly believe it, either. Admittedly, I am not entirely certain why the regime is bothering. Nobody particularly believes that they mean it; and even if the vote was in fact fair and the Syrian people voted for limiting government power&#8230; well, the list of totalitarian states that withered away when the people were ready is a rather short one, and most of those were actually former client states who had engaged en masse in a successful revolt against an imperial power. Not likely in this case, alas.]]>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:34:44 -0500<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2012/02/26/i-predict-that-the-syrian-regime-will-win-the-syrian-referendum-n42365