A bad example is contagious - this is obvious, and therefore trivial.
If the Kremlin and the feds constantly demonstrate to the public manipulation and disregard for the laws, then what do you want from the provincials, especially those sprinkled with power?
I'm reading. Local Vyatka United Russia members decided to celebrate the upcoming all-Russian holiday - National Unity Day.
Party members, teachers, officials, and social activists were invited. We sat down at the round table. They began to express themselves.

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The head of the executive committee of the KRO "ER" Andrey Luchinin recalled the conflict in the village of Demyanovo, which, according to him, began with a domestic crime and received a national color thanks to the media.
Wow! It turns out that journalists are to blame for everything. There were no interethnic events. So... we fought a little and shot a little. What problems? The media invented and hyped everything up.
Does complete paralysis in power and in the activities of United Russia members in Demyanovo no longer count?
There was paralysis, but there were no national problems.
How do you want it? They are not a non-commissioned officer's widow to flog themselves.
Or here's another one.
The head of the education department of the Kirov city administration, Vladimir Kodachigov, emphasized that the school is obliged not only to teach, but also to educate. Teachers are on duty along with police officers when various rallies take place. For example, "Russian March". “If we notice a student in the crowd, we take him under control in the future. We carry out explanatory work,” Kodachigov explained .
That is, in lessons we teach the Constitution, what is written there about human rights and freedoms, and after lessons we have “explanatory conversations”, precisely for that very freedom of speech.
In fact, teachers are engaged in unconstitutional activities. Under the strict guidance of a municipal official and party functionaries.
After such a split in words and deeds, young people either engage in protest activities, or send all the teachers and “those like them” to hell, and then try to talk to them about civic duty and patriotism. They might even beat you.
Of course, there is a proverb - “make a fool pray, he’ll break his forehead.” But it doesn’t belong here. This is understandable :).
True, these restless people are also going to share their experience.
As Alexey Skutnev, director of the Faculty of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions, noted, the experience of the Kirov region, which borders several republics, can become indicative even for Moscow.
So colleagues from the capital and other regions. If the Vyatka people ask to visit you with such an exchange, then treat them with understanding.
However, there is a suspicion that similar pathologies are observed everywhere in other regions.
But this is already more than dangerous.
This is the essence of national policy now: not to notice because it’s scary, and to stop it because it’s even worse.
With such a policy, there is no need to do anything special: everything will fall apart on its own.
But I'm an optimist. Or rather, I try to seem like one.
Therefore, I congratulate everyone on the holiday! :)).