Even if Putin’s successor adopts real democracy, it will take generations to change the national psyche that thinks they need a strong leader. As much as the west hates Putin, he does have real support among the people. At least as long as he remains strong.

Maga maga!

As sad as this sounds. This seems to be the state of things. It would require generations to fix this. The best case scenario would be to split Russia into smaller pieces and then fix the individual pieces. Doing the same thing to the US and China. Wouldn’t hurt either.

Europe has changed its attitude as of late. As well as Canada and Australia. But we’ll see what happens when US invades Greenland.

Well, the police have qualified immunity and the president is immune to all law suits according to SCOTUS.

I’d say that the social contract has already been broken. Not to mention the blatant unequal application of the law according to your wealth.