If we systematize our political life, we get a "landscape of despair". And despair is more terrible than crisis, collapse or revolution, because it can be infinite ... However, see for yourself what and with what we live:.

Autocracy. With the exhaustion of its sacredness and the Idea (Faith), which consolidates the population, can only be an imitation. By blocking reforms, the imitation of the autocracy condemns the state to the same thing, t. decomposition.

President Vladimir Putin. Personality of the absolute power at the stage of its extinction, surviving by throwing responsibility on the irresponsible elite.

Prime Minister Medvedev. The ideal bearer of the two important functions for the Kremlin: he takes the place of a formal heir and is a "punching pear", which does not give him a chance to become a real heir.

Elite. The social stratum serving the autocracy, which is allowed to carry crumbs off the table. Little ones became smaller, which affects the nature of the service.

"Near Circle". Friends and family leader - framing personalistic power. Becoming the guarantor of their interests, the leader loses the role of the exponent of national interests. And the "inner circle" becomes the first candidate for the role of sacrifice when changing the regime.

Siloviki. New owners who privatized the repressive function of the state. The special interest of the siloviki prevails over their willingness to serve the leader, depriving him of reliable support.

Rosgvardia. The applicant for the role of chief oprichnik, which destroys the mutual deterrence of the power structures, turning the president into a hostage to the super-department.

"Ramzan Kadyrov". The resource of autocracy (may be fake). It has anti-systemic significance, undermining the elite consensus and eroding imperial power.

"Pique mainstream". The expert community, which tried to maintain the loyalty of the authorities and at the same time maintain a reputation. The transition of power to repressiveness forces the mainstream to choose: either one or the other.

10. Official Media. The instrument of disorientation of society, which became a means of discrediting power.

eleven. Elections. Means of legitimizing power. Having become the guarantor of ensuring results, the elections turned into a means of delegitimizing power.

12. Repression. The way of the ruling class to suppress your fear. The scope of repression is determined by the depth of this fear.

13. Opposition. Eliminating the possibility for legal opposition, the authorities themselves create an irreconcilable opponent, creating the inevitability of political and civil confrontation.

14. Protest. The only way to change. But at times the regime changes autocracy with the new Personifier.

15. West. Ideological and civilizational alternative. Having lost hope of reforming the autocracy, the West is interested in maintaining the latter in a dying state, for fear of the collapse of the nuclear state.

16. Syria. Becomes a factor in the weakening of the state, having every chance of becoming a new Afghanistan for Russia.

17th. Foreign policy. A means of distraction from internal problems. But creating a hostile environment around Russia, foreign policy limited external sources of supporting the Russian economy. A model example of a strategic failure.

18. Power holding. Propagandistic cliche, which should cover the fact of Russia's de-sovereignization and its transformation into a "gasoline pump" of developed countries.

19. Patriotism in Russian. Only the military is possible, which reflects the pride of power and military victories. In their absence, it turns into "historical patriotism", which calls for pride in the selective past, which makes it possible not to think about the present and the future.

20. Adequacy in the Kremlin. The pride of the president by the actions of the Russian military in Syria, which in fact are the actions of Americans in Afghanistan.

21. Interest. It is allowed only the interest of autocracy under the guise of "state interest", which suppresses the interest of the individual.

22. Loyalty. A means of paying the political class to the leader for ensuring welfare and security. Loyalty is directly proportional to the strength of the guarantee.

23. National self-awareness. It is suppressed from above, depriving the population of the national identity.

24. Trap.

On the one hand, the preservation of the autocracy leads to the degradation of the state and the decay of society. On the other hand, the rejection of autocracy accelerates the disintegration of the imperial state, which failed to become a national state. And what is more preferable?.

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