I know this is Off My Chest, so I'm glad you could get it out there :) But here are some thoughts, if you wanna have a look.

I don't blame the average Russian for having Putin in power, I don't blame the over-worked people who get sucked into brainwashing. If you expect people with worse resources to perform as well as you with better resources, then shouldn't you expect even more of yourself? I don't really care for blame generally. Everything is ultimately very interconnected. I just want change, and try to focus on that and am happy for any positive actions people take.

I also think it's a bit silly to just look at voting, when that's such a small part of upholding/creating justice and democracy. What about the people who work on transparency, social and ecological justice, regardless of who's in power? Just a few of the things that contribute to direction an entire nation state takes.

Here's a related excerpt from MLK's Riverside Speech

Really, I think the entire speech is just as powerful and relevant today.

Now, I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing, as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we're always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony. But we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for in all our history there has never been such a monumental dissent during a war, by the American people.