Our Legislature and Chief Executive rarely play the morality card. They play the Tolerance and Equity card (at least as they are currently configured; subject to change) but the House and Senate haven't really promoted values in ages. Bidet is a Catholic in Name Only and the world knows it.
Putin and the Duma are forever virtue signaling that THEY are defending the full banquet of Traditional Christian Virtue, and the West has lost their way. In reality, the Russian govt are simply cooks at a selective all-you-can-eat Morality Buffet. You won't find any chafing dishes with gay and trans stuff, but there are generous portions of abortion and divorce. And if you slip the Host a few rubles, he'll take you behind the door so you can have some Adultery on demand.
There is a big difference between our government and the Russian government.
Maybe in name only both spend most of their time chasing money and power as for the democrat party Marxism isn’t a bad thing it’s control from 1829 it’s been their game plan.
Russian government flat out kill in the power arena look how many Putin has got rid or their next leader will more dangerous.
True and well put. The Russian moralists like Putin are moralist propagandists. He knows that stupid Westerners will eat up his shtick. Got plenty of Putin’s “true believers” right here at FR.
Meanwhile, no one since Stalin has sent more young Russian men off to die. Putin’s war is a dumb and stupid war. Same as the USSR’s Afghanistan war. At least Stalin’s USSR fought an existential war in the 1940s.