Did you know [i]1984[/i] was really about western liberalism?

[Cypress]

I love Italy with full knowledge of their failures. Russia has been infinitely worse at establishing governments than even Italy.
If they can't do it, how can we expect them to do it?
People at an earlier stage of evolution are not those against whom I measure myself, by the way.

The Provisional government of Russia in 1917 was arguably the most liberal government on the planet to that point in history.

I think capitalism killed incipient democracy in Russia in the 1990s. On the advice of American economic advisors, Russia implemented a radical form of cowboy capitalism in the 1990s, and that was the genesis of the gangster oligarchs. They should have stuck with the gradualist approach of Gorbachev.

People have different definitions of freedom, and I doubt a Russian democracy should it evolve in the generation after ours, will look like ours.

I do not think Chinese, Africans, Arabs, or North Koreans are inferior people for not having a liberal democracy. We Americans got lucky because our heritage and our model was the English constitutional system.

 

[Mason Michaels]

I don't even wanna know.

That don't look like it should be wearing a dress.

Is Mason Canadian?

She's host of Big Brother Canada

 

[Mason Michaels]

The Provisional government of Russia in 1917 was arguably the most liberal government on the planet to that point in history.

I think capitalism killed incipient democracy in Russia in the 1990s. On the advice of American economic advisors, Russia implemented a radical form of cowboy capitalism in the 1990s, and that was the genesis of the gangster oligarchs. They should have stuck with the gradualist approach of Gorbachev.

People have different definitions of freedom, and I doubt a Russian democracy should it evolve in the generation after ours, will look like ours.

I do not think Chinese, Africans, Arabs, or North Koreans are inferior people for not having a liberal democracy. We Americans got lucky because our heritage and our model was the English constitutional system.

Corporate Capitalism rules America, through the politicians they buy and sell

 

[Minister of Truth]

Why? We've already given them a great example of how NOT to do it, and the more modern, European parliamentary governments have shown them the right way to do it.

Well, I do lean heavily toward your sentiment. Here's one guy's interpretation of Putin and Russia, however...

https://im1776.com/2022/05/24/understanding-vladimir-putin/

 

[NiftyNiblick]

The Provisional government of Russia in 1917 was arguably the most liberal government on the planet to that point in history.

I think capitalism killed incipient democracy in Russia in the 1990s. On the advice of American economic advisors, Russia implemented a radical form of cowboy capitalism in the 1990s, and that was the genesis of the gangster oligarchs. They should have stuck with the gradualist approach of Gorbachev.

People have different definitions of freedom, and I doubt a Russian democracy should it evolve in the generation after ours, will look like ours.

I do not think Chinese, Africans, Arabs, or North Koreans are inferior people for not having a liberal democracy. We Americans got lucky because our heritage and our model was the English constitutional system.

You could have a point, but I don't see it.
I believe that it is a serious human deficiency to be unable to establish liberal democracy.
I also believe that our form of government is perhaps the last example to be used as a model.
It couldn't be more inefficient if it were stuck in quicksand.