Huffington Post - If you want to be a good American, listen to Vladimir Putin and stop criticizing Donald Trump.
That’s the “helpful” suggestion the Russian president made Thursday at a foreign affairs conference in Sochi, according to the state-run Tass news agency.
“Mr. Trump was elected by the American people. And at least for this reason it is necessary to show respect for him, even if you do not agree with some of his positions,” Putin said, before adding this dig: “Inside the country, disrespect is shown for him. This is a regrettable negative component of the U.S. political system.”
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I'll stop being disrespectful of 45, once 45 being so disrespectful of the US population.
Putin shows zero understanding of democracy, free speech, or any other of the rules of political discourse in a country of many flavors. In other words, he thinks violent dictatorship is just fine.
Rather than listening to Putin, try Mikhail Sergeevich (Gorbachev).
I was trained by the US government to be a Russian-speaker and, though by the time "Gorby" appeared on the scene I had quit that very-stressful job, watched his Glasnost' and Perestrojka initiatives with great interest. It seemed to me --so strongly that I would have bet significant folding money on it-- that he was trying to transform the USSR from a nominal Communist federation into an actual socialist one.
Which of course the US ruling class wasn't having because it would have given us proles ideas above our pay grade. So, mirabile dictu, first came the sudden hardline coup, and then the drunk El'tsin did his pantomime-horse routine atop the tank.
Exit Mikhail Sergeevich, Perestrojka, and Glasnost', stage left.
Enter, stage right, the celebratory sell-off of the people's property yielding riches for the few, destitution for the many, El'tsin's re-election, and, in the fullness of time, an ex-KGB podpolkovnik as the new uncrowned Tsar' and Official Unofficial Enemy of the Exceptional USA. Khujnya!
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