sounds like we should change his nickname from Pootie to Vlad the Hanging Chad...
Obviously, Putin’s ignorance is diplomatic.
Russian rigged elections are better ... hey pootie.
BTW, America is not a democracy, they fail and turn into tyranny in short order. Oh sorry, that’s what you want.
Well there's your problem...
Many Americans on the left would agree with Putin and would prefer a dictator as long as they can chose the dictator while they are among the elites excepted from the purges.
Of course, history as shown continually that the so called elitists are often the first eliminated.
Fine!!
Suffer as long as you like you ridiculous backwoods hillbilly morons! Nobody’s inviting you into the last century anyway!
Link-getting headline: Putin: Western Model of Democracy Doesn't Exist
Why do we jeer MSNBC when they twist a quote, and cheer when "our guys" do it?
(And....he's absolutely correct! There is no single model!)
Shut up Vlad. First, ‘democracy’ as defined by ‘majority rule’ is not what America is about. There are elements of that in our system, but ultimately America is about the protection of individual rights and the preservation of individual self determination.
There is no better system on Earth that protects the rights of the individual than the system put together by our founders. Unfortunately, that system has been corrupted.
The electoral college is in place because the founders had the wisdom to recognize that areas of concentrated populations could have very different interests than more rural areas, and thus there had to be some manner of ensuring a voice for those not part of the great population centers. Why should a farmer in central Illinois have his leaders chosen exclusively by people in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles?
In any society there are those who are hard working individualists, those who create products, services, and jobs, those who delay personal gratification to learn a skill etc.; and, there are those who do not contribute.
To ensure that people had a voice in creating the circumstances that would allow them to become productive contributors, and in keeping with the statement in the Declaration of Independence that we are all endowed by our creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we do not restrict voting to those who are the ‘producers’ in society. This carries a risk that we have to take. That risk is that those who are not producing will eventually become a greater percentage of the populace than those who are. At that point they can vote themselves, by simple majority ‘democratic’ means, whatever they want to extract from the producers. That leads down the road to the same disaster that your USSR became. Our system has safeguards to prevent that, but they have been slowly dismantled by those who think like your previous colleagues in the USSR.
btt
Obvious Commie calling the pot black...
I guess Putin’s model of democracy is one where when someone voices objections to his stooge Medeyev, he sends goons out to smash their faces if not murder them.