U.S. is Imitating Russia... Perversion of Democracy...

1984...

is a novel... George Orwell creates a society run by leaders like Putin and Trump... where the leaders insist... that,  

"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" and as Trump insisted "what you hear and see is not what's happening... or as his lawyer declared... truth isn't truth...

In 1984,

One of the main mind programs of The Party was the so called "double thinking", or doublethink, which "describes the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct social contexts."

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When 'truth isn't truth...'
The Orwellian slogan applied in our society

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Giuliani's tweet came less than 24 hours after he sparred with NBC's "Meet the Press" anchor Chuck Todd over the meaning of "truth." "When you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he's going to tell the truth and he shouldn't worry, well, that's so silly because it's somebody's version of the truth. Not the truth," Giuliani said Sunday. "Truth is truth," Todd replied. "No, no, it isn't truth," Giuliani said. "Truth isn't truth. The President of the United States says, "I didn't ..." "Truth isn't truth?" Todd interjected. "Mr. Mayor, do you realize, what ... I think this is going to become a bad meme." "No, no, no ... don't do this to me," Giuliani said.

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One is a "billionaire" plutocrat and the other a billionaire oligarch...
Both have tremendous power to create havoc and wreck the world order...
Both have their own "truth" which does not correspond to reality...
Both hate the media and critics... One poisoned opponents in Britain, the other "fired" and bullied and mocked his opponents... 
Both do not believe in democratic values... and both are from the 1%... 

...and both systems... both swamps stink... like the STINKY below...

Stinky is blooming at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens... in Los Angeles...

Any "democracy" of one man one vote... is not a true democracy unless it is anchored in economic equality... When people are hungry... homeless... sick... unemployed... one man one vote means fuck all...

Russia has a voting system... Turkey does too... and so does Egypt... but their democracy is just an empty shell... and means nothing...

When only 54.2% vote then it indicates a failed "democracy"... The U.S. did not need Russia to sabotage its elections... The economic reality and homelessness and the distinguishable differences between the major parties is enough to demonstrate the undemocratic democracy of the U.S. and so called liberal democracies... The difference between Putin's oligarchy and U.S. plutocracy is ONLY shaky freedoms of speech and assembly...

Presidential election, which saw just 54.2 % turn out to the polls—and the 2016 results aren’t too shabby... 

Voter trunout by year... 

VAP = Voting Age Population; VEP = Voting Eligible Population. Note: Percentages here are based on VAP, not VEP, which makes them lower.


That said, the bar is pretty low: Americans are one of the least active voting populations among developed countries, with the U.S. clocking in at 31 out of 35 countries in voter turnout. Take Belgium, which saw over 87 percent of voters turn out in 2014, or Turkey, where over 84 percent of voters made it out to the polls, and the U.S. doesn’t look quite so engaged in its democracy.

So, many Americans choosing to not actively help decide the country’s future leaders. Why? There are probably as many answers to that as there are eligible voters staying out of the polling booths. Here’s a quick look at who actually does vote—and who they voted for...

When people lose faith in the system... then democracy or plutocracy or oligarchy become blurred and they resemble each other... 

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... and also, 

Scientists just announced that... 

Water ice 'detected on Moon's surface'

Maybe we should abandon this world and fly to the moon...

But,                                                                                                                                     Temperatures on the Moon can reach a searing 100C in daytime, which doesn't provide the best conditions for the survival of surface ice.

... and then,                                                                                                                                  The Moon is tilted on its axis by about 1.54 degrees, there are places at the lunar poles that never see daylight.

The satellite which detected the water ice comes from India... 
It is ironically absurd that India is launching satellites... to the moon while more than half of its citizens live in poverty... where gang rape of girls and boys is common... and where the so called democracy is based on the caste system...
India is poor and uneducated... but it is also called euphemistically "the world's largest democracy..."

I do not think democracy can exist while most of the people live in poverty... 
Poverty perverts democratic values... and income inequality, as in the U.S. and in Russia, makes a mockery of liberal and democratic norms...