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He still lived under Eastern Bloc communism for most of his life. He knows...first hand...what government oppression is. Hell, his father was in the politburo. When the father had to travel, his family was watched even more closely.Bingo. My last fiance was a communist from the Eastern Bloc. He had first-hand knowledge of what oppression is.It's not just American Conservatives saying it, it is Russia, the conservative model Frank and his band of ass lickers of the opulent pine for.
Conservative Russia
People simply do not realize that Russia is a deeply conservative country.
Fiscal policy is buttressed on a low, flat rate of income tax (13%), and there is virtually no social safety net, with spending on unemployment security, medical provision, disability aid, infrastructure, the environment, and urban regeneration far lower, in both absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP, than its G8 contemporaries.
Similarly, military spending is high in comparison and growing medical care is available free in theory, but requires private insurance or additional cash payment in practice, and businesses are in reality pretty un-regulated.
If that doesnt sound to you like a set of policies Newt Gingrich or William F Buckley would support, then you dont know your dyed in the wool conservatives from your woolly jumper wearing liberals.
He thinks the Democrats are horrible. He doesn't think too highly of the GOP, either. Seeing the USA this way makes him sad.
Bingo? Communism is an economic system and soviet bloc countries were totalatarian and communist; today they have evolved and are more democratic and socialist yet participate in the market system as opposed to central planning by a central government.
Anyway.
That's why he has no respect for the Democrats, and not much more respect for the GOP.