Putin’s plan – a strong democratic hand
Published: 11 September, 2009, 17:16
Edited: 15 September, 2009, 08:02
Five years ago, Vladimir Putin announced a reform of election law. This elapsed period allows us to make the first conclusions about the effectiveness of the reforms and also have a deeper look at the motives for them.
One look at this crazed world, which is at low intensity war, and you know Putin’s decision to concentrate political power and centralize democracy, is the right one. If the Kremlin now makes sure that economic benefits are pushed down to its electorate, and that the Kremlin does not now also own every Cheese, Coffee, and Grocery store, I’d be happy to call this a working centralized democracy. I far prefer this to the American Pecuniary Monarchy, were King Bernanke and Queen Geithner of the “FED of Bandits”, appoint puppet presidents who then wave at the people in alien populist media. When 2% of the USA loyal to another country, owns 95% of the USA, all of whom have been made wealthy by the FED of war mongers printing America’s money to enrich the few… this is not democracy, it’s the “democratic” union of daylight robbery. I don’t care if Russia’s wants to make Medvedev the new Tsar, Putin its King of Due Diligence and let people vote for the Central Bank Governor, that is better than the Private Central Banker Money Priests of Armageddon we now have running our planet in the name of “democracy”. Why pretend “democracy” as dictated by central bankers works for anyone other than central bankers… it’s about time a country got honest and did something for its people, and if that is why Russia is now your enemy, then you are going to have to fight the whole world. If countries are not fighting for our emancipation from alien central banking tyranny, then just get it over and done with, do the inevitable, destroy the world, because this hellhole is then no longer redeemable. Look at our private central banking world… its hell… I say, Russia, do whatever works… western “democracy” is a lie.
Very informative article. Keep up with giving such really detailed information on the actual workings of institutions, it was a treat. I would like to venture a few comments. It is perhaps, from a different cultural perspective, if I may. I would not say that the changes were "a blow to democracy, of course..." There is really no known model of democracy that I know of, that can be used as a template, and then if other models do not match, say "... of course, it does not fit". I would say that the model of appointing governors is accually very good for Russia's overall structural organization, its territory and wide gaps in the different levels of economic growth. This cannot be compared with US model, because US is a union of States. However, in practice, since federal government now finances a great part of State budgets, it is often irrelevant who the Governor is. So, unless we know more about the local government practices, as well as the sources of finances, we cannot really ever say "... of course..". And definitely, changes that in the long run demonstrate their value, cannot be called "a blow to democracy"! If we are to use such terminology, I would suggest that we look at Putin's critics and all the ideas. Let us see, now with the benefit of the elapsed time, how well would have their ideas withstood the wear and tear of time? I remember quite well the cry of democratic forces when the discussion was held on the wisdom of setting up Reserve Funds, and subsequent division into two funds. I remember all the reasons of the free market gurus that claimed that this was a terrible idea. The time has proven conclusively that having savings was the key to survival, while excessive debt was a cause of financial crisis. There are other such examples. It would be fun reviewing some of those, as it could be a great lesson in keeping an open mind.