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There are 91 million members of the CCP. In a country that counts more than 1 billion inhabitants. It's laughably far from representative. But the actual rubbe

by pas 6y ago

There are 91 million members of the CCP. In a country that counts more than 1 billion inhabitants. It's laughably far from representative. But the actual rubber stamper voting group is about 3000 people. However, since there was never any real independent and strong opposition (the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan) the only power struggles were very much about succession, and again that's like a minor clash in a royal family, whoever wins, it's still feudalism. ... yes, you said that Jack Ma is a CCP member, but he was nowhere near close enough to Xi in any aspect to challenge him. He's a useful idiot who got a sector allocated to (IT, cloud hosting and web/online/in-app payments), got big thanks to no competition, and thought he has actual power.

eternalban 6y ago
How many Americans are members of D or R party organizations? By membership I do -not- mean registration to vote for a party; meaningful participation in the political organization, from local office, all the way to national committee level, and of course actual elected and political appointments. I don't have the numbers but wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be an even smaller fraction of total population than the Chinese single party. Roughly take US as 1/3 of population of China, and then test expectation that 91/3 => ~30,000,000 politically active members of political organizations in US. Again, I don't have the numbers, but I would be shocked if actual party members in US even reached the 1 million mark, much less 30 million people. For fairness, let's throw in 18 million Americans that belong to unions. Let's make it 20 millions in total. That's still less than the required 30 million politically organized Americans to be at par with CCP. [but p.s. /g! If we throw in the 18 million American millionaires, then we have a system that is a bit more representative than the CCP]

by pas 6y ago

eternalban 6y ago

How many Americans are members of D or R party organizations? By membership I do -not- mean registration to vote for a party; meaningful participation in the political organization, from local office, all the way to national committee level, and of course actual elected and political appointments. I don't have the numbers but wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be an even smaller fraction of total population than the Chinese single party. Roughly take US as 1/3 of population of China, and then test expectation that 91/3 => ~30,000,000 politically active members of political organizations in US. Again, I don't have the numbers, but I would be shocked if actual party members in US even reached the 1 million mark, much less 30 million people. For fairness, let's throw in 18 million Americans that belong to unions. Let's make it 20 millions in total. That's still less than the required 30 million politically organized Americans to be at par with CCP. [but p.s. /g! If we throw in the 18 million American millionaires, then we have a system that is a bit more representative than the CCP]