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Where’s this from, “100 reasons why democracy sucks?” ^^
25. July 2007 @ 01:07 ( Permalink )
Hehehe, no, but I suppose Shevardnadze’d know. After all, it was in this way he and Yeltsin (if I remember my Russian history correctly) kickstarted the Russian democracy.
25. July 2007 @ 10:42 ( Permalink )
Wait… there’s a Russian democracy?! :O
25. July 2007 @ 12:31 ( Permalink )
Uhum, stupid mistake of me there: what they kickstarted was of course the Russian “democracy” — also known as the Sovereign Democracy.
25. July 2007 @ 21:41 ( Permalink )
Meaning, “people vote on whether or not they’re having a democracy and the result is they elect a guy to answer this for them”? ;D
25. July 2007 @ 22:17 ( Permalink )
No, actually it is what the Russians themselves (i.e. Putin and his subordinates, and in extension the whole bureaucracy and the schools) call the Russian form of government, apparently.
A “Soveren Democracy” is, according to their definition, a democracy without any external influences. I.e. a democracy that can scoff at everyone else when they ask them why the hell they call their form of government a democracy, when it is in fact, as you so eloquently pointed out, a system where the people vote on whether or not they’re having a democracy and the result is they elect a guy to answer this for them.
26. July 2007 @ 00:13 ( Permalink )
Yeah , I figured that out myself with a little googling. Interesting concept. Utterly ludicrous in practice, but rather nice in theory, much like everything else related to democracy, so it’s in-theme, anyway, I’ll give’em that.
26. July 2007 @ 01:42 ( Permalink )