Posted on 11/27/2012 8:24:38 PM PST by cunning_fish
Amusing. Now go learn from history and review what you just said. Nothing of the sort is happening in either Red China or Russia and its burgeoning Eurasian Union.
Ask people who has stocks in Russian energy companies. As for authoritarianism it is a huge inprovement in terms of liberties over any regime they had in centuries. And there is a room for further improvement. South Korea was autoritarian just a few decades ago. If it was liberal instead it could be absorbed by the Norks now. Every lower middle class society has to be authoritarian to same extent. If they arent they are Mexico. Let Russians climb from $18,000 to at least $30,000 average annual income and theyll be demanding for more freedom and small government. And they seems to be in right direction.
Lower tax rates does not un-Red make. And bubbles are a symptom of going too far left, as has been evidenced in the USA.So may be they arent that Red now?
Even Red China has lower tax rates than the US, but thats not stopping their big bubbles from forming.
Evidence is all around. Putin is already on record vis-á-vis his feelings on the fall of the USSR, and also on record praising the USSRs so-called values and open insofar as desiring to apply those values to his Eurasian Union. Not very conservative at all, and fits right in with his penchant for nationalization.Evidence? Is the problem in their dislike to NATO enlargement or what?
The goal is to recreate the USSR after all, but not as a communist empire strictly.
Ask people who has stocks in Russian energy companies. As for authoritarianism it is a huge inprovement in terms of liberties over any regime they had in centuries. And there is a room for further improvement. South Korea was autoritarian just a few decades ago. If it was liberal instead it could be absorbed by the Norks now. Every lower middle class society has to be authoritarian to same extent. If they arent they are Mexico. Let Russians climb from $18,000 to at least $30,000 average annual income and theyll be demanding for more freedom and small government. And they seems to be in right direction.
Amusing. Now go learn from history and review what you just said. Nothing of the sort is happening in either Red China or Russia and its burgeoning Eurasian Union.
Is authoritarianism good for the USA too?
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United States were born free. They don’t have a background other nations has.
Authoritarianism is absolute bad for America but I’m not sure if it stay so in a few generations. People just has to wake up to keep freedoms.
In order to make society benefit from freedoms you need a responsible hardworking society. That is what made America great.
As soon as you are to breed a 95% takers who also lacks any wish for enterprise society you’ll need comissars and work camps to keep things going.
As for modern Russia, imagine Obama declared full communism as soon as 2008? There could be a new revolution to oust him. But just in a few years we have a majority of idiots who vote him back for a free phone and “tax the rich”. In another few democrat terms you’ll have a majority who’ll sell all their rights for a flat TVs.
That may work opposite way and it seems to work in former red nations and it takes time as well. Their leaders can’t just declare free republic considering their background, just like Obama can’t declare full communism considering American background. Yet.
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