I am not saying it, BBC and every institutional group that monitors QOL is saying it. Compared to past leaders of Russia Putin is the most drastic reformation to take place in their history. I am not saying Putin is a good leader, I am saying as far as dictators and leaders violating human rights he doesn't even get a seat at the adults table.
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No, the lefts entire platform is the following: "A cousin fucking cake baker in the middle of nowhere might be mean to a pair of leather daddies and we all have to live under a 1984 authoritarian nightmare to make sure no one says anything mean about the shirtless sodomy parades, And how much immigration do we need? All of it."
Oh and more Free stuff, unless your white.
You are close to making an actually viable argument Just leave out the stuff that concerns personal, private life decisions, sodomy, racism (even if very much on the I'm so poor pandering side), gay kink shaming - and youd be there.
Someone has to tell you at one point, that all of those are aspects, we leave outside of 'regulatory doctrines', because if we'd enforce them the world would become a surveillance hell, where people would find fun in the activity of ratting their neighbors out. "Free" society means, you dont care - if your neighbor does those things.
Best medicine against racebaiting and identitypolitics is collective repulsion of those measures. Issue - as long as you have old people voting for an established caste, that only needs to replicate itself, and drag a few wannabees with it that made it through the SJW movement - you dont get anywhere. How to solve it is unclear, but everyone knows that the majority of people hates it.
Putin has introduced some reforms (mostly early on), but for the most part has given russia back what the popolus really wanted, and that is a sense of mattering again on the wold stage. So praising the achievements of Putin too much is always suspect, because - largely they werent there, economically. Foreign policy was quite successful though.
The first part (private stuff) is most important. If only you could understand that - talking to you would be much easier.
Because as it stands right now, you just want to replace identity politics, with your own set of moral politics, and then police them until 10% of the population is in jail, just so you dont have to think about leather daddies, who you always think about..
Give people the freedom to exist in that regard (mostly in private anyhow) - an you'd almost not be a radical anymore..