1782 Revolving Power

I heard an interesting story out of Mexico in the news recently. Seems a new party is in power there that was once thrown out of power because they were corrupt and arrogant and really screwed the people. They ruled for a number of years and then languished on the sidelines and now they're back in power again.
People always say democracy doesn't work in Mexico but it sure sounds like the way it works up here. The voters are a forgiving sort. Or forgetting.
We think we learn from history just fine. We just forget the correct answers when we take the test.
Anyhow, the party that's now back in power has an interesting name. They are called the "Institutional Revolutionary Party."
Wow. Institutional Revolutionary. That's like saying "organized anarchists." The name is totally made up of opposites. Maybe they should shorten it and just call them the oxymoron party.
Let us deconstruct. "Institutional" often means settled and bureaucratized and ossified. Graven in the stone of convention. "Revolutionary" means new and wild and untried and possibly exciting. And possibly completely out of control.
Institutional revolutionary. Hmm. "Excuse me Mamacita, it's our paid government job to riot in the streets, so if you'd just stand aside."
Then again, they may be talking about a different kind of revolution, like going around on a wheel. And in one revolution they are in power and in the next they are not and so on. And that has certainly proven to be the case. They have revolved back into power in the Mexican Government.
Because the people apparently forgot what they had done. And that appears to be the true institution of revolution. It's graven in the millstone of humanity. The wheel turns because no one learns.
America, ya gotta love it.