Comments on: The Mood in Vladimir, Russia Before the Election http://www.theworld.org/2012/03/vladimir-russia-before-election/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vladimir-russia-before-election Global Perspectives for an American Audience Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: lariokie http://www.theworld.org/2012/03/vladimir-russia-before-election/comment-page-1/#comment-23690 lariokie Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:10:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=109252#comment-23690 "If Putin is maintaining that kind of popular support here, local journalist Vladimir Ganenko thinks it’s partly because he knows what matters to them." Russia's "democracy" sounds erily like our own.  More interesting is the amount of air time the corruption in Russia gets, while virtually ignoring the rampant corruption in American elections.  George W. Bush was never legitimately elected due to gross irregularities in Florida in 2000, and in Ohio in 2004.  Yet our MSM, including PRI and NPR, virtually ignored blatant voter suppression and judicial corruption. One must wonder if there truly are significant structural differences between Russian democracy and American democracy “If Putin is maintaining that kind of popular support here, local journalist Vladimir Ganenko thinks it’s partly because he knows what matters to them.”

Russia’s “democracy” sounds erily like our own.  More interesting is the amount of air time the corruption in Russia gets, while virtually ignoring the rampant corruption in American elections.  George W. Bush was never legitimately elected due to gross irregularities in Florida in 2000, and in Ohio in 2004.  Yet our MSM, including PRI and NPR, virtually ignored blatant voter suppression and judicial corruption.

One must wonder if there truly are significant structural differences between Russian democracy and American democracy

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