There are multiple quantitative measures for a given nation’s degree of democracy, in comparison with that of other nations, but perhaps the best is the job-approval that the nation’s citizens give of the head-of-state. On that measure, Russia is far more of a democracy than is the U.S., and is second only to China worldwide.
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A disgusting video posted on a Youtube channel called “Cut” shows adults discussing obscene sexual acts in front of small vulnerable children. The children whose faces appear in full view are pictured as parents show off various obscene products that are illegal in some countries and cannot be sold in traditional shops in others. The spoken content is extremely explicit. These are words that no child should be forced to hear and concepts that no child should be inflicted with.
In western countries, under the hard influence of America, a country in turn under the hard influence of the world’s best organized and financed lobby, the Israel Lobby, we have come to regard Israel’s behavior as normal, but it is, of course, not normal, not in any detail. What is normal about holding several million people prisoner for half a century?
John Chuckman
