Why do American "anti elite" types think the Kremlin is OK?

[Kinser79]

(08-15-2016, 08:48 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-14-2016, 10:20 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Is it possible for second rate dictators of third rate countries to implode of their own accord?  Absolutely, and in cases where that happens the result is inevitably the replacement of one second rate dictator with a different second rate dictator.  Some civilizations simply are not compatible with Western Democracy--probably because that is a product of Western Civilization.

I'd spin it another way.  Authoritarian cultures have trouble competing with industrialized democracies.  There is a slow turnover with some movement away from authoritarianism.  Within a given culture and life time, the slow turnover looks an awful lot like no progress at all.

Still, how long an interval was it from Great Britain's parliament starting to struggle with their king to the end of the US Civil War?  It takes a long time for a culture to throw off authoritarian rule, and even the US and UK should be considered works in progress.  [Darth Vader Breathing]  You do not understand the power of the Dark Side of values lock.  [/Darth Vader Breathing]  You're not going to see poof magic stampede of rainbow unicorns instant change to perfection.  It is a long slow tedious process.

Have you ever studied history?  Take notes on how long it takes a culture to transition from a classic Agricultural Age pattern to something vaguely modern and acceptable.  Oh.  Hmm.  Has anyone ever transitioned to something acceptable?  Nobody is really there yet?

Well, that does imply that it takes some time.  

I would argue that if you study history you come to the conclusion that certain civilizations come to certain forms of government eventually. The West and the Anglo-Saxon/Germanic West in particular has always had far more democratic flavor than any other countries and the Latinate West less than the Anglo-Saxon/Germanic West but more so than others.

I'll respond to PBR in a separate post mostly because he's being his usual ignorant self, but suffice it to say, while it may indeed be possible that non-western cultures can develop democracies, they will only do so on their own and with much hardship and in some cases only as a result of imposition by an outside force (Japan for example) or because the governmental system of a former occupying power is the least offensive to everyone (India for example).