Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
See the Russian gets it.

I always liked that about Russia, they know what they needed to do and they got it done. No frills no sugar coating.
And hence Russia has always been what it is - backward, despotic, and insane.

So no. I'll take the starry-eyed idealists. They build America. And France. And the Netherlands. And Switzerland. This last one back in 1291, when some starry eyed idealists got together and said 'you know what..stuff this. I'm not going to be a slave all my life. Let's build ourselves a state of free men'


Don't fall for the authoritarian trap. The despot you know isn't better than the progress you fear.