Anne Applebaum: Russian ideology is a mishmash with legs

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5. I completely agree....

... progress does not come without effort. And, in fact, we cannot even maintain the status quo without effort.

To use a humorous, and perhaps inappropriate, analogy from Annie Hall: Democracy is like a shark - It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And the last thing we want to have on our hands is a dead shark.