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The rate of Putin's acceptance has dropped by factor of 2 since 2015. I think the ease of information exchange is the game-changer. The point you're missing is
by chaoz_ 6y ago
The rate of Putin's acceptance has dropped by factor of 2 since 2015. I think the ease of information exchange is the game-changer.
The point you're missing is that Russian gangsters've made some terrible decisions (from economic perspective) and now the only voters they only get old people who only have TV access.
Which is still enough to manipulate elections, but I don't think it's going to continue forever.
EDIT: There is also another social group that supports Putin. "Siloviki" and their families, which happens to be >1% of Russian population.
- pjc50 6y ago> gangsters've made some terrible decisions (from economic perspective) and now the only voters they only get old people who only have TV access. In America, that's an electable majority. Bit of voter suppression and making sure that it's difficult for working age people to vote just helps to push it over the line. Even more so in the UK, where 44% of the vote share gives total control.
- chaoz_ 6y agoI would not compare election quality of "Russia" with UK/US. For example, now we have a voting procedure during pandemics where nobody wants to go not to get infected with corona. But the old people get their voting papers home delivered by pro-Putin activists (Good targeting). It's also not rare for police to arrest key people from opposition and for us to see videos of voting stations based on the stump (literally) in the countryside. In US you have whole war of Facebook not handling AI enough and your "branches of power" do somewhat work. For sure you have your own problems, but Russia is on another level.