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Russian philosopher DMITRY GALKOVSKY on the
2020 United States presidential election:
Houston, you have a problem.
The standard argument against Russian schadenfreude about the outrageous things happening in the U.S. is "you have it even worse".
2020 United States presidential election:
Houston, you have a problem.
The standard argument against Russian schadenfreude about the outrageous things happening in the U.S. is "you have it even worse".
No, not worse. No sane Russian will claim that his country has a democracy and a multiparty system. Yes, the modern political regime of the Russian Federation is a hundred times softer and more democratic than even the late Soviet Union (not to mention Lenin-Stalin)...
... but there is no normal political life in the country, elections are falsified, and opposition protests are either severely suppressed or reduced to the level of an externally controlled farce. But nobody claims otherwise.
Yet in the US, a politically backward country of the Latin American type which has been living in a state of emergency for twenty years (introduced on September 14h 2001 & extended every year), everybody somehow thinks they're living in Germany or Italy. This is not the case.
The US is a terrorist state governed by the Secret Police. The Secret Police does not report to Congress & even its structure has been classified since 2001. All kinds of non-verbal opposition activities are prohibited in the country.
You can fight for the unification of women's and men's toilets or for the restoration of locust populations in the Rocky Mountains, but for the most basic criticism of the regime your head will be smashed in by the Secret Police.
And they will do it much faster and more effectively than in Russia. In 2020, a new phase has begun: "ON YOUR KNEES". Citizens are required not only to show loyalty, but also spontaneous enthusiasm towards even the most ridiculous orders.
Those who don't show enough enthusiasm are added to special lists, subjected to "spontaneous" hounding on the internet and fired from their jobs. There are no real protests about this outrage. Two generations have grown up in the United States who have never even seen democracy.
They do not understand this way of life (e.g. the anti-war demonstrations of the 60's and 70's). They DO NOT KNOW what a moderate social protest is, just like people in the USSR didn't know.
A Soviet granny in a communal apartment could think to herself "if we have it this bad, how much worse has it to be under capitalism?". And just like that, the American citizen with a black eye and a torn shirt pities the poor Russians who are suffering in Moscow.
For the U.S., the imitation two-party democracy of the 20th century is now an unattainable ideal. The two-party system would have to be forcefully introduced like potatoes under Catherine the Great & it would take 20 years to raise people who understand even basic democracy.
A realistic scenario for the US is a conscious degradation with minimal costs, i.e. a transition to a one-party or no-party system with preservation of some democratic institutions and skills (e.g., a ban on worshipping the president, freedom of movement, basic economic freedom).
This should be the REAL STRUGGLE for the educated classes in America. Yet they have fantastical ideas about a City on a Hill, transparent public rest rooms, the 124th amendment to Article 78 or the expulsion of "Putin's agents" from the White House.
What's next? Well, the same thing that comes next for a 90 year old who suddenly decides to get into roller skating and dedicates his life to this goal.
