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While American, I've lived most of my life abroad, and share with your world view of the US. But after having spent years living in China, and being very famil
by insane_dreamer 2y ago
While American, I've lived most of my life abroad, and share with your world view of the US.
But after having spent years living in China, and being very familiar with the political situation there and their global ambitions, I'm afraid that the alternative to the US is even worse.
Have a democratic system has somewhat of a moderating effect on the worst impulses of the US elite. China has no such guardrails.
- rayiner 2y agoWhat “democratic system?” American are checked by anti-democratic forces at every turn, from a judiciary that overturns duly enacted laws based on “emanations from penumbras” to an executive branch that is run by the same people regardless of who wins the election to institutions that are captured by people that abuse their positions to peddle their fringe ideologies. At least China’s unelected bureaucrats are competent and actually focused on what’s good for the public: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...
- insane_dreamer 2y agoTo paraphrase Churchill, "democracy is the worst system, except for all the others". There's a lot you don't know about how things actually work in China. The levels of autocracy, corruption and lack of true legal framework, make the US look like a democratic haven.
- throaway89 2y agoThe US is a paragon of (domestic) democracy and (domestic) human rights next to China, and I say that as a HARSH critic of the West.
- emchammer 2y agoWould this be the same China where jaywalkers' portaits are automatically shamed on electronic billboards and fined social credits? Is that a worthwhile trade for universal single-payer healthcare?