Sergio wrote:Hey, man, that's not fair. Have you forgotten our great politicians? Our congressmen are able to destroy any enemy system. Decades of practice at home make them unbeatable.
I don't know is it a historical unspoken tradition, or just a national custom, but throughout the course of history only choice idiots and thieves were allowed to enter the parliament, become functionaries, or even presidents here.
Damn, we've had a SLAVERY SYSTEM 300 years ago!
Ok, you can say that in Brazil slaves were imported from Africa at the same time period.
Here it was different - the slaves were of the same nation as enslavers, but they were from a lower class relatively to them.
It was called "A fortress right" and was as simple as that: a rich guy could go to the king/tsar and simply buy himself a vilage, or even a tiny town. All it's inhabitants, who were lower class than he was, were automatically enslaved by him due to the law - he could do whatever he wanted to them, even kill them for fun.
Right now our system isn't a democracy and capitalism. It pretends to be, but in fact it's feodal. Again, classes start appearing, and people are even talking about the possibility of a new fortress right appearing in the near future.
In fact, I'd rather prefer to live in a totalitarian Soviet Union instead of this pseudo-democracy, because the laws were the same for everyone there. They were strict, but they were for everyone. Here and now, they are only for ordinary people, unofficially.
I mean that everyone close to the "tsar" and his ruling party, or just functionaries with their families and relatives (SIC!!!) (99% of them are in the ruling party) are unofficially immune to law.
In theory, if they commit any crime, there should be consequences for them because "everyone are equal against the law - it's a democracy here". In reality, they will simply get away with everything, because the police will just cover it all up, or even blame the victims (SIC!!!).
The press and especially the TV are completely controlled by the Kremlin - officially it's the "freedom of speech, guarantied by the constitution", but in fact it's a hard censorship.
Moreover, information is censored not by the government, it's censored by the channels or newspapers themselves. It's as easy as that: you can publish whatever you want, but if something annoys serious guys, the taxes for your company will be increased several times.
This means that the publishers/tv channels have a tough choice: publish/show whatever they want and cope with giant taxes, or just censor everything and don't have tax problems. You can guess what's more profitable for their owners.
And the police... my god. In fact, they are legalized brigands, an oppression force, but not the guardians of law. If someone is a policeman, everyone else look at him with hate and despise, but fearing him at the same time.
And courts... damn. You can guess already. If there is a trial between an ordinary person and a functionary, guess how many chances of winning a beholder has - no matter how good advocate he hires.
Law doesn't exist in this country at all, although it's a "democracy", which even has an "opposition" to the ruling party. They are pocket clowns, but not an opposition.
It's not totalitarian, it's not democratic - it's feodal. It's that simple.
Also, statistically, we have the biggest levels of bureaucracy and corruption in the world.
Nothing is possible without a good bribe: you won't get a satisfactory medical care without putting the money into doctor's pocket, or you simply won't pass the policeman, who didn't like your face without putting money into your passport.
I can go on about it for hours, but, anyway, it doesn't worth it. You can guess the rest.
PS.
What I've meant was that Brazil is a democratic heaven compared to modern Russia.
