If only the president's position was not just a mockup in the hands of the establishment...

Well, then you should sue them.

But it doesn't eliminate the problem, it merely passes it to the media center PC etc

Ok, now I'm interested

Campaigns should be publicly funded.

Then you would just have proxy donors.

Glue is what keeps us together!

No. Stop your government right there, while you still can.

Or else you'll have the same shit we have here in Russia.

I'm a Russian.
Even if NATO has aggression in mind, that doesn't justify current war. There's hypothetical aggression / geopolitical threat and there's real one.
Current war brings nothing, but a shame and death and is throwing both countries under the bus - all for some delusions of old ex-KGB maniac.

Secret of passivity of an average Russian is in eternal "maybe" in our heads: maybe government won't notice me, maybe I will be spared, maybe a situation will fix itself somehow. We even have special term for it: "авось".
It's all learned helplessness.

As for me personally - I have decided that if they will try to conscript me then I will try to flee or go to prison rather than actively participate in that war.

If you are too afraid and unwilling to fight back against the architects of your current torment, are you not already imprisoned?

That's a lofty sophism. There's a huge difference between some philosophical imprisonment and a real one.

Most of us just afraid. There're more and more cases of prosecuting people for "discrediting Russian army", for refusing to be conscripted and so on.
Fear of going to prison is almost in genes, due to the loong history of being heavily oppressed by own government.

Well, I know even more crazy people, who hate masks! Now what.