I have had the good fortune never to live in a dictatorship but I know plenty of people who have. From some of them, the Russians, particularly, I have gotten the vibe that all this ``dermocracy" stuff is window-dressing. It's mob rule; it's a stupid circus,... Fine, there's something to that for sure, Mencken would agree and he was a firm democrat.
Problem is that these people will go on to say that, for example, Russians ``need a firm hand'' in control, and that democracy, though a distraction for dupes in the States, wouldn't pass muster for a nation of Shafarevitches.
How to square that with this article? Are the national characters so different and Americans are similar in their tastes for entertainment to Arabs in Iraq and Chinese in Taiwan? Or is it that the Russians I know are disappointed that democracy made a U-turn in Russia and is headed toward a dictatorship with the consent of the governed (if that makes any sense)?
Maybe all these news articles are BS and the Iraqis don't give a shit about all this, but if you're risking your life to vote, it sure seems like a big deal.
Thoughts?
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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Thoughts? Well, for starters, what the heck is "dermocracy"? And, how come there is no "Go back to Russia" label? Duhhh...
Dermocracy is, in Russglish, dermo (=shit) + -cracy. That is, government by the shit that is the people.
Maybe some of those russkies are in that deeper stage of cynicism that comes when you leave a total shithole of thug socialism, for a place you hope--secretly or not so secretly-- is something much better, only to find the folks in that new place shuffling eagerly down the road to a total shithole of thug socialism.
We have a ways to go before becoming a worker's paradise.
Once you get on that slippery slope, and the wheels are greased, it's going fast downhill -- like that Georgian lugger in Vancouver.
Uh, that's luger. A lugger is a person who lugs, for example, cases of VCP to me, for example, you.
Oopsie, daisy.
Don't drop the stuff, man.
On your toes.
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