> Are you truly having a hard time understanding how life under a Communist dictatorship and a Representative Democracy would differ for the average citizen? T

> Are you truly having a hard time understanding how life under a Communist dictatorship and a Representative Democracy would differ for the average citizen? The difference aren't that great. The most heavily surveiled society on earth is britain. > It's really confounding to me that the younger generations seems to have such a hard time with this. And it's confounding how the older generation thinks the west is any better. > Do they not teach comparative history in schools anymore? They do but just a lot better than they did in the past.