Pope Joan wrote:Dako wrote: And yes, I was there cause Hilary texted me.
PM me her number. I may turn up if the next one is on in Koln...
Overall, I am getting pessimistic after "Just Russia" put forward Mironov in a spectacle resembling the goings of "United Russia": they did not even ask their own candidates to vote for Dmitrieva, so much for "democratic opposition"...
This essentially means that any credible opponent of Putin would need to be put forward via collecting supporter's signatures and is risking to be rejected by the electoral commission, like they did to Kasyanov to help out Medvedev at the last elections. And, IMHO, Putin would be much better president than Zyuganov, Zhrinovsky and Mironov together :mrgreen:
This whole thing is not about Putin being a bad president. He is quite ok. And to be honest, yes, all other candidates are just clowns. But the point of this whole gathering is to show that our people cannot be that easily manipulated. That we want honest elections. That we don't want them to think we are dumb. That we want free media. That we want smart people governing our country. If we had a man or woman with strong political program, real goal and ability to improve the country, heck, everyone would have voted for him/her. But we don't have one :(.
Right we want to say that if we are discouraged by our government, there can easily be 50k+ people on the streets of Moscow. That means current opposition can be a little bit more aggressive because the crowd kind of supports it. And that also means our current government should act like one and stop stealing money and resources.
saxitoxin wrote:Dako wrote:When we went to oppose the government in 1991 it turned things to the better.
Did it?
I think this is a discussion for another thread. But the short answer is yes, I think the situation drastically improved overall.
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