I viewed a youtube vid by ‘The Duran’ and was moved by a comment by one of the presenters, that he made casually and in passing towards the end, to write a whole long comment about it.
I enjoyed getting it off my chest. So much so that I’m repeating it here.
This is the Youtube vid I’m talking about:
And this is my little ‘rave’ about that comment that I enjoyed so much:
that's a terribly important point there, very near the end, where it's mentioned in passing that the UK press never report on what Putin says. Have been ignoring him for 20 years.
Yes. Exactly. And hundreds of thousands of us around the world have noticed, I think. I certainly did.
I blundered across Putin youtube vids years ago somehow.
I was astounded and delighted by his presentation: calm, honest, lack of the 'used car saleman' front that all our politicians have. A front that I have never, had never, seen anything else but. It was/is ubiquitous. It was/is the norm. We have no other. ALL our politicians are salesmen/women.
All persuaders, all deceitful propagandists simply trying to gain our confidence and support so that they can then pursue their own secret ends whatever that might be.
All false because of that. ALL. Even if promoting some apparently worthy cause that they truly feel passionate about they are STILL pretenders and propagandists and coercive. It becomes then that their cause if the explanation for everything. That their cause MUST be supported. That all their arguments MUST be right. That anyone who demurs is a villain.
Calm objective and honest presentation, conversational in tone is absent entirely from our public narrative.
And I saw that. As many other hundreds and thousands of people must have, too.
But it went further.
He also presented sane and logical reasonings. No mad zealot promoting his own cause du jour he was calm polite friendly man simply stating a case.
And there's a thing, too: he was/is friendly. Not in the flashy overwhelming excess bonhomie of the used car salesman or the insincere glibness of the politician but in a quite ordinary 'accepting' way. Friendship, equality was apparent as the basis of it all.
He didn't talk down and nor did he 'talk up', i.e. deliberately blind with science.
I was astounded was quite the truth.
And for years and years I've looked for the same approach, the same presentation, from any of our politicians - and, in fact, from anyone, from the people around me.
I began to use it as a yardstick. I sought it out. I judged people according to it, categorised them, sorted them out.
And myself. I try to adopt the same approach, try to model myself on that.
I should have said that right up front; this is what I'm really saying: Putin became a model for me of how I should be, how I should manifest in my dealings with others.
And here's the point I meant to make: the years of failing to see any mention of Putin in our press and failing to see any politicians or even 'authorities', Dept. heads etc. from our bureaucracies , with a similar manner made a slow but deep and powerful change within me. It fostered without me even knowing it a fundamental distrust and even incipient contempt for all those in our society that should have my greatest trust and admiration.
Yes. That ignoring of Putin for years and years was the canary in the mine. Was the indication if we'd been aware enough to see it of our continued progress in the wrong direction.
A clear sign of our social corruption.
All of which sounds a bit like a total extolling of the virtues of Putin. But it is not. I talk of his presentation not of the whole of Putin and all he says and does.
He has let me down enormously right there with the Covid thing. Disappointed me greatly. Surprised me.
But what I'm saying is that if Putin set out to tell me how/why he arrived at those decisions it'd be easier to take, easier to understand, more authentic and sensible than anything I would ever get from our mob. Get this: EVER get. Our mob is simply not capable of it.
So I think it a very potent, very important observation, that our press never report Putin.
I had exactly that response when I first heard Putin speak, too, and for years now the contrast between his erudition and calmness, and the fundamental falsity of our own political class, has been glaring.
My guess is that he responded to Corona the way he did because he'd been temporarily outmaneuvered. Had he taken Lukashenko's openly belligerent path of opposition, the Atlantacists within his government would have eaten him alive. Instead, he played along, maintained power, gave the liberals rope with which to hang themselves; but notably, refused to implement any federal mandates, leaving things in the hands of local administrators ... and, I suspect, relying on the natural distrust towards authority of the Russian national character. From what I've heard, compliance in the liberal cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg was low; covidianism is a thing of the past; and the liberal third column now seems to have utterly discredited itself.
Well said, quite eloquent. I admit I have not done copious research into whether or not Putin mandated any "vaccination" -- I've heard both that he did, and that he did not. I think it's entirely possible that the response from the fellow below is accurate, or simply that like millions, billions of other people, Putin was initially frightened and sought to do what seemed best at the time. I don't know, but I have watched Putin speak on several occasions and was also impressed with his "way," and how very avuncular he comes off, while being very astute and unassuming. I was also impressed with the Syrian president, al-Assad, hearing him for the first time, not just reading about him, perhaps a couple or three weeks ago... Erudite, very rational, knowledgeable, even wise-- a leader, but no used-car salesman! We Americans are being cheated and it's time we had some good leadership again... I say David E. Martin for Prez.