The Russia bashing has backfired.

[nadinbrzezinski]

70. Just because you personally have never witnessed it

It does not mean it's not happening.

I have never seen a lynching n the US, most people in larger urban centers never did, but they happened. (And in certain areas of really rural back country town are still happening. Ugly story of suicide story that simply had to be murder from Texas)

People here are reacting at the series of laws, which were passed by the equivalent of Congress. They are reacting with the same visceral hate to people in North Carolina for example. It takes a certain level of yes, understanding and political sophistication, to realize it is not all people. But a few, usually owned and played by particular interests.

And at times the obvious escapes people. Recent election here had an ultra right wing group making robo calls in support of the local R. None among the dems called that out. This is one group that would love to see those same anti gay laws in the US (Working Families USA).

At the even more macro level, we are all chums, played by powerful oligarchs. My advise, focus on that aspect. The all Russians are not monsters will not go well. It's not western propaganda, unless it missed the wall to wall coverage of laws in North Carolina. It is mostly human nature. Most humans automatically create the other when they don't understand something. See, I have not lived in Russia, but I have studied her history. Like American history it is full of good, bad and ugly.