[eksemplar]

Democracy is messy, slow and complicated because it's build upon compromises between different factions. A lot of things in the west are more of a mess than they are in Russia, but there is a reason immigration streams one way.

[Chris2048]

What is that reason? Seems there is a lot of money in the US, isn't that it?

[nasredin]

Go to JFK international arrivals and ask immigrants why did they come.

I guarantee you would get hundreds of reasons not just one.

Although they are probably gonna be "simple" reasons.

Maybe something like having the right to waive the Rainbow Flag in front of the Whitehouse in case of Russian immigrants.

[Chris2048]

How many of those reasons are one of "something money can fix" or "something getting a European visa can fix".