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What's the preferable alternative? It's not perfect, but democracy is undeniably better at serving the interests of average people than any other alternative th
by TheCoelacanth 5y ago
What's the preferable alternative? It's not perfect, but democracy is undeniably better at serving the interests of average people than any other alternative that I'm aware of ever being tried on a large scale.
- legalcorrection 5y agoThe Chinese government has been incredible for the Chinese people (not all of them, but most of them). Democracy with much more limited suffrage is probably more appropriate for the Western man, but we are ideologically closed to that option.
- oldsecondhand 5y ago> The Chinese government has been incredible for the Chinese people By what metric?
- tshaddox 5y agoI’m a different commenter, but if I had to guess I’d say primarily by the metric of starvation.