Frank's Musings

The January 6, 2021 Insurgency at the U.S  Capitol may portend, in reverse, the hopelessness of the demonstrations that are occurring in Russia on the return and imprisonment of Alexei Navalny.  If they gather enough support throughout the country and are sustained long enough, they may justify thoughts of an overthrow of the Putin regime.  However, like the Capitol Insurgency that was so labeled in the media, it is doubtful that it represents the will of an ultimately dominant majority of the public

The victory of Joe Biden in the 2020 Presidential Election has proved the shallowness of the "movement" behind the Capitol Insurgency.  Nevertheless, the forces of democracy in the U.S. must be vigilant of the real disaffection that divergence in the distribution of the economic and social benefits of capitalism.  The resentment it causes can explode into the destruction of the peaceful order that American society needs for continued success  

The Putin regime is undoubtedly capable of repressing the Navalny movement and imposing an even tougher police state.   Animistic eruptions of democratic sentiment can be counter-productive unless there first is careful and unbreakable construction of a replacement popular form of government.  Otherwise, the anti-authoritarian movement will only fade away.   Hopefully, the same destiny faces the out-of-control rabble that defiled the U.S  capitol.