Statism is a virus which periodically erupts to infect the entire body corporate. Sometimes it takes the form of communism and sometimes the form of a vicious autocracy. Russia has been the victim of this virus in both of these forms and many more.
There is simply no foundation upon which a just society can be built in Russia. There is no fundamental conception of the individual as being unique building unit for just society. There is no experience of the rule of law. There is no institutionalization of criticism of the government. There is no transparency. There is no expectancy of justice from government.
There is only an abiding cynicism which dominates every part of the Russian culture. To believe in democracy is to be a fool. To trust in the rule of law, is to be a victim.
The lesson from all of this for we Americans is to look to the health of our institutions to read the future. Are our churches performing their role? Our media, our universities, are eleemosynary institutions? The answer is clearly, no!
The virus of statism is never dead but only dormant or active.
Today we see the virus emerging in the form of environmentalism, globalism, etc. The point is not to focus on the individuals such as Putin or even Obama, these are but the excressences on the surface of the virus within.
All of the decay represents the undermining of liberty and every bit of the decay in America has been the willful and intended object of The Frankfurt School. We see it compound by Cloward and Piven and by Saul Alinsky. Without them, Barack Obama would not be possible. If we eliminate Barack Obama we will have but put Clearasil on the pimple but we will not have treated the underlying virus.
A leader will not save Russia because there is really nothing there to save. If we do not look to our own institutions we will soon be as bereft as Russia.
