Well, here is a thought...
Dominicans (me included) are very easy going folks. They don't do much to bother other people (with the exemption of merengue music blasting at full volume all hours of the day and sometimes the night), we simply sit on our chairs under a palm next to a colmado with a bottle of rum on the left hand, a "ficha" of dominos on the right hand, a mouth complaining about politics, and a body that is in better condition than that of most people in developed
countries.
Then, Hippo comes into the news and he starts with his jokes before he gets serious in answering the questions but the lights goes off and all people hear are his unappealing jokes about society. Dominicans get mad at Hippo and in the heat of things buy some rum, play more dominos, talk more crap, and maybe even get laid at the end of the day. By next morning, everything happens over again and before you know it, as a dominican, you take your last breathe of air and into the "bobeda" you go after having a good life of complaining and having fun after the complaints. Oh yeah, I forgot to add the weekly trips to the nearest Western Union to collect on the greenback coming from New York.
So you see, life in the DR is nothing but a dream. Despite the facade of poverty and perception of misery, most people in the DR are quite comfortable with themselves and their lifestyles, they love politics Dominican style and so, they don't really revolt. Yes, they create Huelgas but that is to take vacation time or extend a festive time (notice how January people basically did nothing with the parties and the Huelgas week after week).
In Haiti people don't have that mentality. They look around and they see dirt, poverty and more dirt. And it's not like in the DR, because in the DR the dirt is covered with beautiful flora and the poverty is painted in rainbow colors that brightens ones day up. In Haiti, the sun shines on the harsh unfiltered realities, and when you see your own child starve to death day after day after day after day, you begin to built recentment. Haitians don't have a bit of love for Politics and thus, you get a revolution. That is my theory of why Dominicans don't revolt. Besides, elections are only a good number of weeks away, they can always vote Hippo out and talk more politics between now and election time, with a bottle of rum, a game of dominos, etc. etc. etc. GOD!!! I LOVE THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC!!!!