| lordmandeep said: Well frankly I think some countries are so divided and messed up that democracy cannot function. A great example is Pakistan. I think the thing about Putin is that he may be evil, but I think if he was to go the power vacuum would likely send Russia into chaos. |
Russia is better-developed than Pakistan, the trouble is that the Russian electorate doesn't act like that of a developed nation. The Russian middle class has never been able to coalesce into an effective liberal (small "L" liberal) voting bloc, but if proper middle-class leadership could emerge, something representing Russia's future rather than the oligarchs or Russia's past, then you could see something
Because of Soviet educational standards and the economic growth under Putin, Russia has met the preconditions for a stronger democracy than it has, maybe not perfect, but not as poor as it is, it's just that the internal structure of Russian politics has prevented anything meaningful from coming of that yet.
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