The goal is to get through this while introducing as few new forms of
   massive suffering or destruction as possible.
   Usually in the US we have a flipflop between republican and democrat
   babbling figureheads.
   Most people don't discuss that if you know something secret and are
   willing to risk more than anyone else, you can get the whole nation to
   do whatever you want, and it used to be that if you tried to pull that
   somebody would use it to gently reign things in: not to start a
   competition with you.
   The goal is to get through this without hurting huge groups of people
   any further.
   On Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 6:43 PM Zenaan Harkness <[1]zen@freedbms.net>
   wrote:

     So Vladimir Putin literally lays out the ideological basis for
     Russia "developing contacts with the Democratic representative", and
     it's epic:
        Vlad said:
           "The Democratic Party is traditionally closer to the so-called
     liberal
           values, closer to social democratic ideas. And it was from the
     social
           democratic environment that the Communist Party evolved.
           After all, I was a member of the Soviet Communist Party for
     nearly 20
           years. I was a rank-and-file member, but it can be said that I
     believed
           in the party's ideas. I still like many of these left-wing
     values.
           Equality and fraternity. What is bad about them? In fact, they
     are akin
           to Christian values [author's note: ROFL 😂].
           Yes, they are difficult to implement, but they are very
     attractive,
           nevertheless. In other words, this can be seen as an
     ideological basis
           for developing contacts with the Democratic representative."
           ...
           "Back in the 1930s, Communist International leaders wrote that
     both black
           and white workers had a common enemy — imperialism and
     capitalism. They
           also wrote that these people could become the most effective
     group in the
           future revolutionary battle. So, this is something that can be
     seen, to a
           degree, as common values, if not a unifying agent for us."

     [2]https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-says-wants-work-joe-biden
     -claims-shared-values-between-democrats-communism-1537501
     Found here:

     [3]https://notthebee.com/article/putin-just-spoke-favorably-of-biden
     -and-dems-because-they-have-shared-values-with-the-soviet-communist-
     party

References

   1. mailto:zen@freedbms.net
   2. https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-says-wants-work-joe-biden-claims-shared-values-between-democrats-communism-1537501
   3. https://notthebee.com/article/putin-just-spoke-favorably-of-biden-and-dems-because-they-have-shared-values-with-the-soviet-communist-party