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Very simple – the real rulers of the USA and the Western world in general (financial elite) do not allow smart and honest people to start a serious political career, because a smart politician can become a threat/competitor for these rulers. So only bad candidates can participate in elections, and so the voters do not have a good choice. I have two questions relating last US presidential elections: 1) Am I right that the US mass media like CNN and Fox News supported Disantis instead of Trump, stating that Disantis is “a young and smart Trump”, “let it be the Trumpism without Trump”, “the approval rating of Disantis is increasing while the rating of Trump is decreasing”? 2) I saw the presidential debates between the candidates; Haley said there that Putin is a murderer. Disantis always said that he plans to stop supporting Ukraine. Logically this means that Haley must had hated Disantis, but instead they rather were “friends against Trump”. Am I right?

So you believe that the Americans had good choices - previously Biden, then Harris - and they showed themselves stupid since they voted not for Harris but for Trump?

Again: a common situation is when candidate A promises something ugly regarding question 1, but something good regarding question 2. Candidate B promises something good regarding question 1, but something ugly regarding question 2. So the voters do not have choice. For example, some candidates promise to supress gays, while others promise to supress homophobes; and when these candidates change each other, nothing changes, because both parties are rather spoilers serving the financial elite. This is clealy seen in case of USA and Poland.

I suppose, the members of this forum hate such politicians as AfD, Le Pen, DiSantis? I understand their reasoning.

The problem is that the choice of candidates is only among people approved by the elite. And often, if some candidate declares something good, at the same time he declares some ... on other subject, so the voters don't have a possibility for vote for a candidate which is really good for them. I hope you understand my logic for the case of e.g. AfD in Germany.

As far as I can see, the Western democracy is mostly an illusion; the Western countries are ruled by the financial aristocracy. This works as follows: if a problem arises in society, the financial elite, represented by parliamentarians, passes laws to solve it; but these laws simultaneously serve one more purpose—increasing the wealth and power of the elite. In particular, these laws are always aimed at suppressing the small businesses, because small businessmen are less dependent on the power and can overthrow it. Currently I have two examples, but I apologize for not fact-checking everything thoroughly; I hope somebody here can help me with this: 1) I have seen an interview on Euronews, where it was said that agricultural subsidies in the European Union always help large agricultural holdings more than small farmers; 2) One blogger wrote about how laws aimed to combat global warming (greenhouse gas emission quotas) in New Zealand similarly benefit large agricultural holdings, and lead to ruining of small farmers. Please comment my examples above and suggest any others.

I hear often that the world is currently experiencing a “loneliness epidemic”; for example, in Japan, pensioners are now often committing small crimes to end up in prison, where they'll feel less lonely. Another similar phenomenon is "atomization," when people live in an apartment building for years without interacting with their neighbors. I see that all of these phenomena have a common cause: politics. Many people confirm to me that educated people, on average, have fewer friends than the uneducated ones. There are also studies showing that smart and educated people have fewer children, a problem mentioned in the film "Idiocracy": I think that I understand perfectly how this works. Friendship requires common goals and interests; and when people in normal, non-sectarian groups begin discussing various intellectual topics, they inevitably start discussing politics. Then some of them become oppositionists, then the authorities punish them, and this discourages others from engaging in such communication. That’s why usually people find friends in so-called “interest clubs”, more exactly sects, where the goal of a group is called “important” for its members, but in fact the main purpose of it is only helping to find friends. This is very clearly evident in my country, but the same trends are evident in the West, only more hidden there. Western democracy is illusory, the deep state rules there. A psychologist also told me that a person starts drinking alcohol, if he lacks a purpose in life—and this happens because his country lacks democracy, he can’t vote for something that makes the world better. I am certain that if we introduce a political system with many referendums, people will easily make friends anywhere, and loneliness will disappear, as well as alcoholism.

Yes, of course. Everybody knows that the number 666 if the "number of Beast". And many Russians like this number.

In Russian province cities, the majority of taxi car services use these digits in their phone numbers for calling: https://taxi666.ru/ I understand that the members of sf deny the prophecies, but what about the Freudian effects?

Previously I had suggested a plan for Trump to stop the war in Ukraine. If you don't like my plan, here is one more: Trump would publicly suggest Putin to perform this referendum, and say that otherwise Trump would deliver Tomahawks to Ukraine. If Putin refuses to perform this referendum, he will have to explain the Russians his motives – a nuclear war is better than the referendum? Don’t you feel how strange does this look?

It is indeed important to derive this information to Trump. As far as I understand, he really tries to stop the war in Ukraine, and now he plans to attack Venezuela; and Putin, as usual, starts threatening him with nukes. Trump have some very easy possibilities to overcome Putin and make the western democracies the winners - he just needs to upload some videos on youtube with appeal to Russians. The Russians will listen to what he says, and they probably will experience a cognitive dissonance.

I live in Russia, try to talk with different people (e.g. taxi drivers, etc.) as much as possible. Also some Russian bloggers say the same - that in Russia there is an apolitical majority and two minorities pro-war and anti-war. I can provide you some Russian music videos, as an illustration, how many Russian do not like Putin and his war: https://youtu.be/RMg0AGE11oo https://youtu.be/l07MYf2iPr4 https://youtu.be/6vHufynMM1g

I have read a Viktor Frankl's book about Nazi concentration camps, and I noticed that the rules in these camps were designed to inflict maximum suffering on Jews (not just to kill them). I also saw a TV program about World War II, and it mentioned the following fact. At the end of the war, the Allies liberated the territories of Germany where concentration camps were located. The Germans evacuated Jews from these concentration camps and transported them to deeper regions of Germany, which the Allies had not yet reached. And this was done at the expense of military expediency – instead of evacuating weapons, important equipment and so on, the Germans evacuated Jews. From this, it can be concluded that most Germans derived sadistic pleasure from carrying out the Holocaust, and this sadism became a need for them. Maybe there are some Germans at this forum, who can comment this?

I've come to the conclusion that about 20% of Russians get sadistic pleasure from inflicting suffering on Ukrainians. It can be said, that there are three peoples in Russia: an apolitical majority, a pro-war minority, and an anti-war minority. And the pro-war minority ("vatniks") impose Putin's current policies and persecute the democrats in power. Putin wouldn't have started the war if the “vatniks” didn’t persecute people like old liberal Medvedev, A.Chubays, I. Nabiullina; and his war is turning them into sadists. I can explain why Putin needs to torment Ukrainians, causing them as much suffering as possible. For the past 20 years, there has been a clash of two ideologies: the Russian imperial ideology (Ivan the Terrible, Stalin, etc.) and the Ukrainian pro-democratic Maidan. The Maidan gave Ukrainians a lot (in particular, a fight against corruption), and if Putin hadn't bombed them, they would now be happier than Russians. And in this case, the Russians would also want to inspire a revolution (Maidan) in Moscow. This is precisely why Putin is artificially making Ukrainians unhappy. The "vatniks" like their meme "The ukrs had jumped on the Maidan", meaning that as long as Ukrainians live worse than Russians, the “vatniks” believe that a revolution against a government is a bad idea. I constantly read news about how the Russian army bombed a Ukrainian hospital, a medicine warehouse, and so on—at least unconsciously, all of this is aimed precisely at causing suffering to Ukrainians. It can be said that Putin has no choice: if he will loose the power, he will lose his life.

I suppose, Switzerland is an exception to the EU countries. I really like the direct democracy there (referendums each 3 months).