It's not because one system is better than another, merely a relative relationship, that it's a good system overall. That depends on the criteria used. I think

It's not because one system is better than another, merely a relative relationship, that it's a good system overall. That depends on the criteria used. I think you know that, yet your comment reads a bit like 'hey there's much worse things out there so don't complain'. Don't forget e.g. PRISM. Even if CCP does things objectively worse, and the US in theory has a political system as you described, that still did happen and is not exactly 'good'.