Russia? U.S.? Difference?

This is from Lost Continents, a good blog from Wisco. Go read the whole post, it is very good.

I first visited the then Soviet Union in 1975 and was struck more by similarities than differences in the two societies. The Russian communists had more in common with republican rotarians than American leftists. Today both countries have embraced what I call Fuck You capitalism and are run by oligarchic kleptocracies with similar results for their respective peoples.

My emphasis.