Monday, December 05, 2011
But that's not the real irony!
News item: surprise election result in Russia.
True. But at least Russians HAVE a choice outside the current set of corrupt Mafia parties.
The non-Mafia choice was ALLOWED TO RUN, and ALLOWED TO GET A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE VOTE. That can't happen here. We don't need to worry about opposition. Our "two" "parties" won't allow a party representing pre-1989 America to get anywhere near the ballot. Unlike Russia, our system is fully and efficiently rigged. Fully fucked. No matter what happens, Goldman wins. Goldman takes all. America starves.Jews win, you lose.
That's the real irony. ¶ 4:27 AM
Not that the Communist Party's doubling of its vote to about 20 percent presages any imminent assault on power. The memories of repression in the old communist Soviet Union, the labor camps and the regimentation are still too fresh for many. But vote for the Party they did, if perhaps with gritted teeth.
For many Russians disillusioned by rampant corruption and a widening gap between rich and poor, the communists represented the only credible opposition to Putin's United Russia.
Through all the turmoil of the early 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed, the party kept a strong national organization based on regions and workplace. With access to official media limited for the opposition, this has been a huge advantage.
Also the communists, ironically, benefited from the votes of some pro-Western liberals who saw little or no hope of kindred parties such as economist Grigory Yavlinsky's Yabloko clearing the seven percent threshold to enter parliament. Yabloko doubled their vote to 3.3 percent.
"The Communists are the only real party out there," said one Western banker in Moscow. "United Russia is a joke, Just Russia is a joke and the LDPR is a joke and many people know it. So they vote communist because they realize it is a real vote for the opposition and against United Russia.
"This is as ironic as you get."
True. But at least Russians HAVE a choice outside the current set of corrupt Mafia parties.
The non-Mafia choice was ALLOWED TO RUN, and ALLOWED TO GET A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE VOTE. That can't happen here. We don't need to worry about opposition. Our "two" "parties" won't allow a party representing pre-1989 America to get anywhere near the ballot. Unlike Russia, our system is fully and efficiently rigged. Fully fucked. No matter what happens, Goldman wins. Goldman takes all. America starves.Jews win, you lose.
That's the real irony. ¶ 4:27 AM
