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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts) Thu Jul 12, 2018, 09:05 AM Jul 2018

If you want to make America more like Russia you suck.

My grandparents left that hellhole with nothing more than the clothes on their back and I am thankful every day they did. They left after the first revolution in 1905, the one that forced the Czar to liberalize. Russia is as free now as it was then:

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/russia

Carry on...

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If you want to make America more like Russia you suck. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2018 OP

That is trump's plan, isn't it? He prefers authoritarian leaders to chelsea0011 Jul 2018 #1

Russia is nearing 3rd world status Johnny2X2X Jul 2018 #2

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)

1. That is trump's plan, isn't it? He prefers authoritarian leaders to

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2018, 09:50 AM

Jul 2018

leaders that move toward individual freedoms and the good of the commonwealth. He thinks strong arm tactics work better. Any bully thinks that. The man is truly scary to have as our POTUS.

Johnny2X2X

(18,973 posts)

2. Russia is nearing 3rd world status

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Thu Jul 12, 2018, 10:06 AM

Jul 2018

It's still run by a small number of families, something like 115 families control 90% of the wealth in Russia and Putin has a piece of all 115 of them. It's really a Con paradise with the top 1/100th of 1% living like kinigs and the rest of the country struggling to eat and care for their children.

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