Especially for the "Kremlin without towers" - Telegram channel Naive political science turnip and ideology The mid-term elections in the United States went exactly as the analysts predicted - a combination of specific decisions and the behavior of the American president resulted in the defeat of the Republican Party in both houses of parliament. It is necessary to clarify: the complaints of the Americans were not caused by Trump's foreign policy maneuvers in the Middle East and Eastern Europe per se, but by their indirect consequences on the taxpayers. And here it is no less important to mention that in this matter, the Russians or any other people differ little from the Americans. The difference, rather, lies in the work of government mechanisms, mainly electoral ones. As practice shows, ideology never managed to crush the Philistine - just remember the fate of the Soviet Union, which was crushed by rubles melted into Sberbank accounts, as well as elephants, crystals, sets and walls from the GDR. The state was so eager to fight the resistance of the Soviet people, by nature, with a somewhat different idea of the collective good, that it could not see the direct result of total corruption and incompetence within the party. Any large enough community will vote for the availability of food and against the lack of food, regardless of the degree of formality of this desire, which is confirmed by the experience of totalitarian states where the only way to vote is to flee, even if it involves risking one's life. The remarkable political stability of Nazi Germany was ensured, first of all, by improving the quality of life of the target audience of the NSDAP due to the plundering of internal and external enemies. Against the background of stories about the greatness of the Aryan race and a soup of memes, the Hitler regime would not even go so far as to divide Czechoslovakia.