If you want to talk about whether something exists in practice rather than on paper then I have some news for you about Russia.

Yeah, exactly. I'm saying the UK and America have democracies of equal quality to and poorer pedigree than Russia.

Edit for clarity.

	▲	AnthonyMouse 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The US has generally had elections in which whether you could run did not depend on your ideology or opposition to the current administration, and the candidate who got the most votes would get into office. Russia, not so much.