Hello, Michiel!
Monday July 29 2024 12:15, you wrote to me:
MV>>> So why did you not vote him out when you still could?
DP>> The only chance was in 2000,
MV> I don't think that really was the last and only chance. However...
It doesn't matter how people vote. If you have total control over the voting
system, you can make up any numbers.
40% can become 70% with no problem.
But when you have total control over the media, the courts, the police, and the
secret service, it's very difficult to even make people believe that they can
change anything.
DP>> but people were tired of inflation, the civil war in Chechnya,
DP>> and an ill and drunk President Yeltsin, and they wanted someone
DP>> "strong enough" to fix the country and show the world that
DP>> "Mother Russia is great again."
MV> So the people want a "strong leader" to solve the problems. And that
MV> is what they get. Or so they think. What they don't realise is that
MV> what they get is a leader that will use the power given to /stay/ in power.
MV> For as long as possible. At all cost...
It wasn't something we were taught in Soviet schools... The main idea was that
you have to trust someone who is in power at the moment - your teacher, your
boss, your party or state leader.
Orthodox church always says - do not oppose your state leader, it's a sin.
Fidonet was different because it was a democracy :)
MV> Putin isn't the only one. There is a world wide trend for elected
MV> leaders to turn into autocrats. Xing Pi, Erdogan, Bouterse, Netanyahu,
MV> Orban, Maduro. And maybe Trump and Wilders...
People like simple answers to difficult questions and strong populist leader is
a very simple answer.
MV> I just hope that in ten or twenty years the samen question will not be
MV> asked to the people of The Netherlands... :(
Russia is always providing very good examples of how not to do things. The
previous one was communism, now it's time for a new one :)
I am just curious why it's always something from Germany? Carl Marx was German,
the current Putin's regime is very much based on German ideas from 193Xs..
Many next ideas will be from democratic Germany :)
Best regards,
dp.
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