When you look at Russia - Putin looks a lot like a czar. That's not an accident. It's a culture of power and a culture of tradit

When you look at Russia - Putin looks a lot like a czar. That’s not an accident. It’s a culture of power and a culture of tradition. When I look at my country - the United States is a semi-democratic, hierarchical racist white-dominated society that seeks to preserve elite privilege. That’s exactly how it was created in 1787. It was a slave-owning genocidal country killing Native Americans for the sake of white culture, but it’s amazing that it still looks like that even though we’re much more diverse now. And one more point I’d like to make about democracy, because we are in a forum of democracy, and where we treat democracy as a good thing. The most violent country in the nineteenth century was probably the first or second democracy of the world, and that’s Great Britain. You can be democrats at home and ruthless imperialists abroad. Источник: Slavyangrad