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The very first article yogthos showed you, had a poll that showed half of usonians don’t think their country is a democracy (they’re right)
The US congress, its highest governing body, hasn’t gotten over a 20% approval rating for many years.
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You’re deliberately avoiding the core premise that people thinking it’s democratic means it’s democratic.
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Okay then, here are some articles showing how china’s people’s democracy works, and why they intentionally avoid the capitalist dictatorship model common in western countries.
Is China a Democracy?
- Is China a democracy?
- Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
- What kind of democracy does China have, and how is it different from the west?
- In contrast to low US political approval ratings, 96% of Chinese are satisfied with the national government (Edelmans 2016). World Values Surveys says that 83% think the country is run for their benefit rather than for the benefit of special groups. A Harvard research center study of long-term public opinion survey finds that > 95% of Chinese citizens approved their government. How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)
- How does China’s political system work?
- How are Chinese leaders elected / chosen? How meristocratic is the system? How do elections differ from those in western bourgeois democracies?
- Who runs China? Makeup of the national people’s congress.
- US policy-makers are misjudging popular support China’s Government.
- The american dream is alive… in China.
