Hey, I wsn't arguing with you. I was illustrating your point.
>
>This is tiresome. If America were a democracy, Bush wouldn't be President.
>But we are not talking about Platonic ideals. The non-democarcy envisaged
>by the Soviet-era fans of Pinochet and acolytes of Kirkpatrick was a right
>wing dictatorship or military rule -- _no_ elections (not just unfair
>ones), no free speech, no civil liberties, Zyganov would have been in a
>concentration camp or dead under them, not lerading the opposition. This is
>too obvious to say. Please note that I also put "democrats" in scare quotes
>in describing Yeltsin and Putin. jks
>
>Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >This was the line of Jean Kirkpatrick and her followers among some of the
> >pre-post-Soviet "intelligentsia." Turned out to be wrong there.
>"Democrats"
> >like Yeltsin and Putin were perfectly able to marginalize unacceptable
> >politics. jks
>---
>If Russia had been a democracy, Zyuganov would have been president from
>1996-2000.
>
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