I have to add , I said the hate party just months ago said that Russia and Putin were a major enemy and massive amounts of verbiage was thrown into the idea that our military needs billions more because of the threat of Putin and Russia. I never said what the democrats thought at all. You people just can't debate about your scum bag hero without making your case on what someone else said or did. Thats just dumb.
There were Republicans that claimed that and there still are Republicans that claim that. Plenty of Republicans. So, if you're in agreement with them and they are the party of hate, then I guess it logically follows that you share in their hate.
I'm not Republican and I'm not a Democrat, so your Sunni vs Shia-like hatreds are something your two groups need to work out. If you all as individuals thought things for yourselves first, weighed different sides of the arguments, and arrived at a conclusion based on what arguments persuaded you most, them maybe your two rival religious factions might be less acrimonious.
But as it is... most the adherents of both your major religions simply accept what commandments are walked down by your religious leaders.
There are some Democrats and Republicans that don't do this. That's what resulted so many Democrats supporting Bernie Sanders and so many Republicans supporting Trump. They all believed something was wrong with the establishment politics.
I understand that you are deeply, deeply, hurt, emotionally wounded over years of Obama being bashed by Republicans. Your heart and soul was poured into him--as it would be for any religious leader elevated as Pope of that party--as if he were the Moses and you under him his Israelites.
Putin is a great leader and may go down as the greatest leader in all of Russian history. That statement does not imply he is a saint. Nor does it imply he is an evil man. What is most important to understand is he is
Russian and
within the Russian *political culture* he has not only been successful himself but he has accomplished to improve his country when it was on the brink of collapse. You see, in nothing I said does it imply Putin was a great political leader for
Americans, for
American domestic issues, or that he would ever have been
successful in the political system and political culture of the United States of America.
When I took an intro. sociology course in college our text book noted in simplified terms that the bid difference between
theology and
sociology is that theology makes statements about
how the world should be whereas in contrast sociology makes statements about
how the world is. Now, admittedly, the text book oversimplified that as plenty branches of sociology assert how the world ought be and promote said changes. And likewise, theological discourse will accept that the world is oft x, y, or z way.
But the point I'm making is that Saudi Arabia has its own political system and political culture and both the United States and Russia have there own. Success and accomplishments in any of those nations politics is better judged on how well one does within the respective system and culture he or she is functioning politically in. So, I'm pointing out the Democrats LA with Skid Row. The
Democrats. My view of Putin is that he would never tolerate that in one of Russia's largest, richest, and most internationally known cities
if Russia could financially afford to resolve the issue. Keeping in mind how tiny Russian per capita GDP (wealth of the "average" citizen) is compared to that of the USA. Basically, Russia is still a "developing country."
