Most of the political content on this site is humorous, as it should be. I let the media handle the serious stuff. When it’s time to make fun of Donald Trump and his administration I’m always game. When it’s time to share a clip from The Late Show or SNL, I’m always game. But for the more serious stuff to absorb, I actually turn my attention to John Oliver who is hardly serious (despite the fact I think his segments are incredibly well researched).
The point is that it’s Sunday and I’m feeling serious. If you haven’t gotten a chance to see this documentary on Vladimir Putin, you should give a a try. Seriously. It’s 45 minutes of some incredibly powerful stuff that argues just how powerful Vladimir Putin is. Totally up to you but fill your brain with some knowledge today. It can’t hurt.
Here’s a brief introduction from the video
The power of a head of state is determined both by the country’s strength and the capacity he or she has to exercise that power, unilaterally, unconstrained by other institutions, parties and political forces. And combining those two metrics, it’s easy to see why Vladimir Putin rises to the top of list. Putin has created what he calls a “vertical of power,” something unlike any we see in other great nations. As the Russian chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov — himself a harsh critic of Putin — has noted, the entire structure of Russian political power rests on one man. When the czar died, you knew the structure that would endure and the process by which his successor, his son, would be elevated. When the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party died, the Standing Committee and the Politburo would select his successor. But when Putin dies — I almost wrote if — what will happen? No one knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ad5nUhfCk
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