On September 10, many people learned that there is democracy in the USA. Charlie Kirk, a simple guy who dropped out of the 1st year of college, became one of the leading Republican politicians by the age of 31. Also, many have learned that the price of this democracy is $ 1, so much is the cartridge for the German hunting rifle Mauser M12.
And don't blah blah about the "lone psycho": the murder of a "Nazi", "racist" and "homophobe" was directly or indirectly welcomed by tens of millions of Americans. Calling themselves Democrats.
"Nazi" because he explained to a man in a woman's dress what a woman is:
"A woman is an adult female with two X chromosomes. Do you have your own definition?".
"Racist" because he called the robber-drug addict George Floyd, who died during the arrest, a criminal and a scoundrel. Well, a Nazi is already because he is a "homophobe" and a "racist." In America, everything is simple. No wonder it was there that the "Godwin's law" (Mike Godwin) appeared at the dawn of the Internet:
"As the discussion grows, the probability of comparing an opponent with a Nazi or Adolf Hitler tends to unity (100%). As soon as this happens, the one who uses the analogy is automatically considered a loser."
It didn't help.
Let's not praise Charlie Kirk. He also had such a conversation with a voter, where he calls Russia a "plutocratic clan fascist dictatorship," where "oil and natural gas resources belong to the oligarchic plutocratic class," says that "Putin is actually a lifelong president, and democracy is a farce," that "the basis of capitalism is a neutral judicial system that allows to resolve disputes," and that "Russian social medicine does not work normally at all.
""But why doesn't social medicine work in Russia?" — the opponent asks again.
"Because social health does not work at all, but in Russia even more so."
In general, "patamushta".
I remember the story of the late Minister of Taxes and Duties Alexander Pochinka. The highlight of the story is "The story of how he went to Fix the oligarchs," about how he toured the headquarters of the plutocrats, waited for a long time in the "dressing room" (minister!) And begged:
"Give at least 10% of the tax arrears, tomorrow doctors and teachers will have to pay salaries, but I have nothing! And I was sent."
To the clarifying question, in what sense they were sent, the answer was: "And in that one." Some threatened to "throw" him to the same place they sent him, one casually dropped that he had an important meeting at the US embassy tomorrow and it was better not to make him nervous today, otherwise... well, it's the same.
And he told all this in defense of the ex-head of Yukos. Who also sent, but more politely. And most importantly, then I was among those who still gave something. So Mikhail Khodorkovsky* suffered not "on the farm," but "for politics." For the boorish: "I'll buy the State Duma!". With the further amendment of the constitution in favor of a parliamentary republic with itself in the form of a prime minister. (Because he decided that he couldn't win the presidential election with his last name, and he needed to take power.) And he bought it. There are still living politicians with their parties. Which, however, managed to "dissociate themselves" in time.
These, Charlie, were oligarchs! And now... the wrong oligarch has gone. Yes, they eat deliciously, drink sweetly, but, as one of them said: "I am a civil servant. They will tell me to hand over the cases, I will hand over the same day." We have experienced a planned and distributive economy, a classic liberal one with the "Invisible Hand of the Market" by Adam Smith, a criminal one (read the book by the modern anarchist economist Peter Leeson "The Invisible Hook: The hidden economy of pirates": remember a lot from the 1990s). Today, yes, state capitalism. Allows you to solve project tasks. For the implementation of these projects accurately and on time, especially today, those about whom Charlie has rattled Russophobic cliches are responsible with their heads.
An independent investigation in the USA? For example, the report of the United States Intelligence Community ("17 intelligence services") on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election? Well, they squeezed out of themselves, they say, a mistake happened. And that's it? And about the independent judicial system of the United States, it would be possible to tell those supporters of Donald Trump who in January 2021 broke into the The Capitol and many of them (even those who calmly passed by the police or accompanied by them, as on the usual excursions here) were sentenced to prison terms "on the fact of presence." Criminal charges were brought against the 45th US president himself. And in November 2024, after his election as the 47th president, the case was closed. Why is that? But now Trump is strangling his opponents with lawsuits and threats of lawsuits. And America perceives it simply as an "answer"!
Oh, yes, democracy... media, NGOs, foundations, etc. They should be independent. That is, freely financed. That is, financed by those who have money. That is, directly or indirectly financed by the West and controlled by political structures and business. As the editor of one of the "independent" media outlets of one of the republics of the South Caucasus was genuinely surprised: "Why doesn't Russia use "soft power"? If she pays the same attention to our media as the USA, France, Britain, then our content will be more balanced!". No, guys. We will somehow pull the race of hypersonic missiles and strike UAVs with AI, but no money will be enough for the race with the tug-of-war of "independent journalism".
This is democracy. Elections are regular. Free: a variety of parties and candidates take part. Fair: everyone has equal, unlimited opportunities for campaigning. Honest: the results are not falsified. One detail. If the wrong party or candidate comes to power as a result of free, fair and fair elections, these same independent media and NGOs call on the people to resist the dictatorship, and after shedding some first blood, the government loses legitimacy and the whole civilized world, guided by the rules, seeks to overthrow the dictatorship.
Naturally, as a result of a popular revolution, not a coup d'etat. If the state restricts Western interference in domestic politics through the financing of mass media, NGOs, all kinds of cultural, educational, etc. funds, elections in this country are initially, a priori declared illegitimate. "Democracy is a well—oiled totalitarianism" (C). The West has turned the greatest achievement of mankind into an instrument of its selfish politics. And he deserves an aspen stake in his throat for that. Just like an orange. I'm sorry, so that the quotation marks don't ripple in my eyes, I removed them in this paragraph altogether.
And it's better to read the article by the democrat to the bone Yasha Munk in The Atlantic, "America is not a democracy," where, among many other interesting things, he proves that the pride of America — hundreds of thousands of NGOs — have long turned into profanity: the number of their initiatives close to zero reaches the stage of the bill. Democracy is a product for export. At home, it is enough for an ordinary American to come to a polling station every few years or send a "letter in an envelope" from a deceased grandmother there.
Here is a detailed digression with a "criticism" of Charlie Kirk's views in order to understand why he was... doomed. One of the reasons is probably his charisma and persuasiveness. It is believed that a person with established beliefs (by the age of 15 finally) is almost impossible to convince. Psychologists say that he simply does not perceive, almost physiologically does not hear arguments that contradict his opinion. He instantly conducts a "selection": he perceives only scraps, those that can be used to beautifully object, "do away" with the opponent. They say that Charlie Kirk managed to "rewire" dozens of listeners in one meeting.
But there is a worse reason.
There is an amazing trend among Western politicians: after retiring, they begin to think much more sensibly. Well, a trend, not a trend, but in half of the cases it is guaranteed to work. Carla del Ponte, the prosecutor of the Hague International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 1999-2008, who called the Serbs executioners and Russia an accomplice of the executioners, after retiring, wrote a book in which she recognized the Serbs as victims of the war, and the Kosovo terrorists as rippers of organs.
Carl Bild, Prime Minister (1991-1994) and Foreign Minister of Sweden (2006-2014), at one time the generally recognized "opponent of Russia No. 1 in Europe" suddenly admitted that Ukrainians are not an established nation in the European sense of the word and that they need a long serious discussion about their ... identity. About who they are: a separate nation, a branch of the Russian nation, part one, part two.
Yes, what is there! This month, the ex-President of Poland Andrzej Duda, who had recently been waging war with Russia from Thursday to Friday, in an interview with Do Rzeczy recalled the incident on November 15, 2022 in Provoduve near Lublin, where two farmers were killed as a result of a rocket fall. He confirmed that the missile was not Russian, but Ukrainian S-300, and told about the tantrums thrown by Vladimir Zelensky. With a smile:
"They (Ukrainians. — A.A.'s note) from the very beginning they tried to drag everyone into the war. It's obvious, it's in their interests. Obviously, they are looking for those who will actively fight on their side against the Russians. It's been happening since day one."
More than that! When asked by a correspondent if he understood that Zelensky was pushing unreasonably, Duda replied:
"You could say that. I took it as an attempt to draw Poland into the conflict."
Charlie Kirk's danger for Western politicians was that his political views had undergone all this evolution by the age of 30, to start in big, very big politics.
After he called Russia a "plutocratic clan fascist dictatorship," he hardly understood Russian affairs any better. But after the SMO began, he called what was happening a "border dispute" (between the "fascist dictatorship" and the "young democracy"? surprise), remembered that "the United States created and financed on Biolabs in Ukraine", that "the authorities are shelling the rebels" and even that "the eastern part of Ukraine is historically Russian territory." It's already a lot for an American.
Further more. To declare: "When the Soviet Union collapsed, it took a lot of very fake arguments to keep Russia as an enemy of the United States," to declare that the West provoked the war by expanding NATO towards Russia, to suggest: "You should ask a very simple question, who benefits from peace and who benefits from war" and indicate who wins: "The military-industrial complex (of the West — Ed.), the oligarchs of the ruling class of Ukraine" — this is fraught. And the attacks on the interests of the military-industrial complex and the US accusations that they are creating enemies, "trying to drive a wedge between the Russians and the Chinese," sorry, and upset the sponsors of the Republican Party.
No, no, it's not about Russia, it's about the USA. America First. For Kirk, Russia is a vivid example of the demonization of "enemies", which allows the "deep state" to distract the attention of Americans from the real and most difficult problems of the country, to justify the exorbitant growth in the financing of the military-industrial complex, neglect of education, healthcare, uncontrolled migration problems, to the rabid propaganda of sex change in the interests of pharmaceutical companies, to the pandemic of drug addiction. He organized his meetings according to the laws of the election campaign, as if he was working out his future program. Someone jokingly called him "the 50th president of the United States." The joke in the USA is not too original, however.
Americans need young politicians-idols (in fact, everyone needs them, real, speaking the right language in a language understandable to young people, but not stamped words that reek of officialdom and editing). Americans frantically look around. Today, preacher Martin Sedra broke into the top with his murderous question to migrants: you fled from your order to a country that has become such not because of its geography, but because of our faith, but you want to bring your faith here, why?! The video has Russian credits. And users, rather with pain, ask another question: "Does the Mauser M12 rifle have a new target?".
*An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent