white people be like "why yes i am an expert about this country that i've never been to, nor speak the language of, why do you ask?" https://twitter.com/SocksxMC/status/1347645834884767744
white people be like "why yes i am an expert about this country that i've never been to, nor speak the language of, why do you ask?" https://twitter.com/SocksxMC/status/1347645834884767744
The dictatorship in China has close to 2 million directly elected legislators, at the township and county level. "Townships" have tens of thousands of people, and "Counties" in China have hundreds of thousands of people, for reference.
All of them run in competitive elections where there's always more candidates than open seats, and candidates are selected through a collaoborative effort between the government and local citizens.
Absolutely. The Chinese government structure and elections are fascinating and to accuse them of being undemocratic is purely a demonstration of ignorance.
I knew a guy in college who was from china, asserted that it was not democratic,but insisted that was a good thing, since it helped keep people like Trump out of office. Is this a common position, or was he a weirdo?
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It's "not democratic" in the sense that they don't have a massive circus every 4 years with a minor one every 2 so that the hooting hoards can "pick" a leader. It's far more democratic in the sense of "popular participation" in the government.
Authoritarianism is relative. America has always been a brutal, genocidal police state if you are black or Native, and it's never exactly been nice to immigrants from any race outside of the native white core, which has shifted over time. But hey, our Good Liberals have been fighting like hell to make sure that we all get to participate in the circus!
Think about what sort of class background and incentives exist in the mind of the type of person who can go to an expensive school abroad. It's like judging all Americans based on spoiled libs overseas or frat bros who worship Roman statues.