by cactuspete » Fri Oct 31, 2014 8:31 am
texasranger: You might be surprised to learn who's actually been drinking the Kool-Aid. First of all, Russia is not ruled by the Communist Party and it is not a dictatorship. Secondly, the candidate for the Communist Party (Gennady Zyuganov) received only seventeen percent of the vote in the last presidential election in Russia. Putin belongs to the United Russia Party which subscribes to a politically moderate ideology. Not only did Putin receive sixty-four percent of the vote, but all polls showed him in the high fifties to mid-sixties, which crushes any assertions that the election was rigged. In the 2012 Russian Presidential election there were several viable candidates and so it's fair to say that Russia enjoys a more truly democratic process than do we here in the USA. I could go on and on and on, but I think at this point it's pretty clear who has actually been drinking the Kool-Aid.