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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]American democracy was originally designed to allow individuals and local communities to chart their own course.  This made perfect sense in an 18th century agrarian society where most of your needs could be met through local enterprise.

But American democracy is poorly suited to the 21st century.  Everyone pulling in a different direction under the guise of "freedom" is simply chaos.  Now we are constantly at war with each other - urban vs. rural, black vs. white, immigrant vs. native, north vs. south.

I don't know that China has the perfect system.  But the fact that there is a vision for national greatness, and a political system that allows infrastructure to be built and problems to be solved, seems like an improvement on America.[/quote]

Not quite.  American "democracy" worked because the franchise was limited to those who exercise it for the betterment of western civilization.  Expanding it to unqualified people has been an abject disaster.  What's worse, "democracy" only works when the people share common values.  Increased diversity leads to diverse, not common, values, so democracy fails.  Even Aristotle understood this basic concept thousands of years ago.

Chinese governance suffers from many problems, especially the inevitable transfer of power from Xi.  However, their problems are better than the West's because the West is run by incompetent leaders who hate their own people.  [/quote]

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