Igor Eidman: "Protection from fools"

"About Trump, Putin and the adoption of new sanctions by Congress. In engineering there is such a term - “fool protection”. Any household appliances, software, etc. are equipped with protection from obviously inadequate, stupid actions of users. Fool protection is very necessary and in the political system,” writes the sociologist onFacebook .

"Effective democracy is a system in which even an idiot in power does not pose a great threat to society. After all, the mechanism of checks and balances will still not allow him to significantly change the country's politics. The history of Trump's presidency (including how things are developing under him relations with the Kremlin) so far demonstrates that American democracy is equipped with such foolproof protection.

But in the Russian political system, protection from fools is not provided in principle. The main thing is to come to power, and then you can be weird and fool around as much as you want, no one will stop you. Any stupidity, any crime of the president will be greeted with stormy and prolonged applause from those around him.”