Putin’s Approval Rating is Nearly 3 Times That of Joe Biden

Joe Biden’s approval rating is now sitting at 33% according to the most recent polls.

Meanwhile, Putin’s approval rating is 83%, according to Western media.

Yesterday, I wrote about how people like Tucker Carlson should stop talking about “democracy” as if it is a good thing.

Russia has elections, but I don’t really think it is reasonable to call it a “democracy.” Certainly, it is not a democracy in the Western sense of “liberal democracy.”

Yet, the Russian leader has more than two-and-a-half times the support of the US leader. China, which does not even make any pretense of being a democracy, has even higher levels of support.

The US used to claim that non-democracies have very high levels of support because of controlled media. At this point, the US media is more controlled than Chinese media, so this argument is no longer valid.

The fact is this: people in countries that are not democracies are happier, because non-democracies are more likely to represent the interests of the people. Non-democracies are less corrupt, which is a big part of it.

People in non-democracies have a lot more overall freedom. I don’t think there is a 1-1 correlation between freedom and happiness, and obviously people can define “freedom” in different ways, but as a general rule, people are happier with more personal autonomy and ability to make their own life decisions.

In 2022 America, it is difficult to even make a list of decisions that people are allowed to make for themselves. The government controls virtually every aspect of the people’s lives. When the US government decided on forced vaccination (no, there is no difference between “forced” and “mandated” – this is just a semantics game), it then became possible for the state to make any choice for people.

Right now, the big distraction story is about whether or not parents should have a choice in whether or not their children are groomed to be homosexuals, and the consensus from the government is that parents should not have that choice.

Men’s choices about marriage and family – which are the most important life decisions – have been disappearing for decades under the feminist project. The cooperation between government and mega-corporations under democracy (along with the taxation regime, which is a part of this) destroys people’s economic choices.

The choices that democracy focuses on – for example, the choice to live on the street as a drug addict, or the choice of homosexuals to march naked through the streets – are all allowances for anti-social behavior, which restrict the freedom and harm the lives of the general population.

No one in a major urban center in America has the freedom to walk through the streets without being harassed by drug addicts living in tents.

This is all just simple logic. Systems should be judged by their outcomes, not by whether or not they meet an ideological model. Anyone talking about “democracy” is claiming that the ideological, theoretical model of society is more important than the society as it actually exists in the real world.

Here’s what a functional society is going to do: they are going to decide what outcomes they want, and then work to build a system that leads to those outcomes. What ideology – whether democracy or anything else – does is the reverse: ideologies create systems, and then say that whatever the outcome of the system is must be the best outcome.

Imagine any industry other than government working on this principle of “outcomes don’t matter, the only thing that matters is the process.”

The desired outcome of any society should be: healthy families, healthy bodies, material security, and physical safety.

Those things can’t be achieved through mandate, so a society has to allow for freedom.