Nice try but not at all: governments come and go while cultures have a much longer lifetime. Witness "grim and gloomy" russians under prescriptive eternally opt

Nice try but not at all: governments come and go while cultures have a much longer lifetime. Witness "grim and gloomy" russians under prescriptive eternally optimistic communist dictatorship. I think those folks that downvoted my comment had a different idea and, perhaps, felt it's too close to home for comfort.