Russian Democracy

[ICantSpellDawg]

The scariest part about these occurrences is not what is happening now or, probably, not what will happen in the near future. The consequences will be felt when Putin is out of power, or until he goes a bit daft.

The best reason not to have voted for Putin in this instance was Putin himself. When you hand power over to one man or party, you effectively ban other "Putin's" (people with new ideas and charisma) from the competition. It may not seem this way now, but new direction will be harder to implement when this regime starts to go south... or south-er

...but what do I know, Im a 24 year old non-russian. I've always felt that Democracy and Republicanism were more of a speed bump in history than they were the road itself.