Many years ago the FOX network show “COPS” went to Russia and followed the local gendarmerie around. Now, while that was back in the 1990s just after the fall of the USSR, and I supposed at Russia’s nadir economically, it was still shocking. The clothes were shabby, the apartments where they lived were like the worst public housing tenements of New York or Chicago. But most shocking was the Emergency Room at a Moscow Hospital where a stabbing victim was being treated. I’ve seen cleaner mens’ rooms at interstate truck stops. It was absolutely the last place I’d want to recieve medical treatment.
Did things get better? Maybe. And then maybe they’ve gotten worse again as Putin and his cronies loot the country. Russia should be quite well off, and her people living comfortably. They have all the resources for it. But they are not.
However, we are not far from that should we elect our own kleptocracy this November.
As with Trump, I don’t care what you say I would vote for Putin if I could.