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(32,609 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Bucky
(54,003 posts)[font size="3"]Putins Russia promotes both women and misogyny in politics. Wait, what?[/font]
This is not to say that the regime is feminist, by any means. Russia has not passed even the weak gender-equality legislation that has been under consideration for more than a decade. This summer, activists barely averted the decriminalization of battery, which domestic-violence victims use because there is no specific domestic-violence legislation.
Rather, women are being recruited into Russian politics to suit the needs of the regime. In the past two elections, some women have been used as showgirls, including a ballerina, a rhythmic gymnast and a former Playboy model, to attract voters. Other elite women have been recruited as political cleaners, a role especially for governors, to clean up the appearance of corruption. As one commentator told me, There is the perception that women are less corrupt.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)malthaussen
(17,193 posts)Try this one on for size: China.
-- Mal
tecelote
(5,122 posts)calling them Comrade.
With the Friday night news dump, it makes it even more relevant.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)E.g. McConnell (Я - Kentucky)
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Trump supporters celebrate and are proud.
"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article118666158.html
RelativelyJones
(898 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Strong authoritarian ruler, super Daddy figure at the helm. Strict rules and enforcement. But a lot of us think it's skin color. The Russians are a mostly white society. The long simmering strife between the Germans and Russians is a divide the right wing hopes to melt away. These people see the world as a skin color, tribal war where all the whites must come together to defeat the browns and blacks and yellows.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)Appeasers.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)jaxind
(1,074 posts)Love it!!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)gordianot
(15,237 posts)I had a friend that always maintained the Republican Party was analogous to Russian Communist Party ruled by autocrats. His thesis maintained that both parties needed each other to maintain control hence the Cold War. If you can't beat them join them Reagan's dust bin of history is getting full of trash, go for the guns forget the butter.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)their economies are in the Red, death spiral to the bottom on the barrel. Moocher Red state that only produce 35% on the GDP and most of that is TX.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Botany
(70,501 posts)And God forbid Trump gets into office he should be called President Putin.
Bucky
(54,003 posts)War Horse
(931 posts)But that gave me laugh as well
JHB
(37,159 posts)...and he is them.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)Going to fly it high for all my trumpster neighbors to see.