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I wonder how much of this is "divide and conquer" and how much of this is just the Putin administration trying to export its own flavor of governance, which doe
by spamizbad 4y ago
I wonder how much of this is "divide and conquer" and how much of this is just the Putin administration trying to export its own flavor of governance, which doesn't really directly translate to Western democracies. What comes out are ultimately sentiments of anti-liberalism / anti-rule-of-law / anti-individuality and the political factions who tend to embrace that live on the fringes.
- SXX 4y agoIt is neither. Just like in case of "second most powerful army in the world" this is just buffooning to atract attention of western press. Regime that is absolutely financially and morally corrupt is absolutely incapable to implement anything like that on scale. It is not important how much money they have when 99% will always be stolen in process. Unfortunately it does not make overall situation any better because there are less corrupt, more stable, but even more totalitarian regimes that capable of doing this.
- godelski 4y agoIt's both. I think it is easy to get caught up in which and that can add to the distraction. In my opinion it is still essential to teach our citizens to become aware of this practice and to be able to defend against it. We don't even need anywhere near 50% of citizens for this to be effective. I'd assume that between 10% and 20% could be more than sufficient, as long as we learn how to make our voices powerful. This number comes from the fact that a small minority of people have demonstrated the ability to capture the narrative and use it to dive and confuse us. So how do we instead harness this power to create good in our society? That's the real question here.