I swear unanimous appreciation of china was a pretty common sentiment and now I'm consistently seeing upbeared comments about how china isn't and never was a socialist state, and how actually their use of markets is as bad if not worse than america. What's going on? IDK what to think or what side I'm on here but it just seems like opinions fundamentally changed so quickly, it's weird.
I think one of the biggest differences for better or worse is the proximity to the revolution. It’s still within living memory so people know what happens when governments don’t care for people and work to provide for them, but it’s close enough the government is probably too paranoid and cracks the censorship whip too often. The biggest fault of the US is it’s inability to see itself in the wider context of the world and learn from others.