Putin's Mild Ride
Have you noticed that the articles about Putin winning the election in Russia almost inevitably have a sentence about the outcome never being in doubt?
That's to create a contrast – strongly implied if not stated outright – between the political system in the United States and Russia, though the media in both countries act as propaganda arms for their governments.
Though let's be honest. Presidential elections in the United States aren't exactly hotbeds of choice either.
The US is notorious for making things as difficult as possible for third parties while those in the mainstream, the Democrats and Republicans, are both corporate entities and not only are backed by the same groups/individuals but even managed/advised by the same people.
The rhetoric differs, the policies? Not so much because in the United States we get a shiny veneer of choice, not the reality.
It's worth mentioning that Vladimir Putin is 71 years old and appears fairly robust while Joe Biden is ten years older and way too many people seem to think that he's done something amazing when he gives a single speech without drifting off to stories about Corn Pop.
While Donald Trump is 6 years older than Putin, though a fabulist and an entitled idiot.
Yeah, we've got it great over here.
