• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        Guessing it’s some nonsense like conflating a multi-party system with democracy, even though multi-party systems have a worse track-record when it comes to actually representing the public will because factionalism better allows for opportunism. Fundamentally, the policy proposal process in the PRC is more bottom-up, while being executed from the top-down.

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      7 months ago

      Who has any right to tell the people of China how they should choose to govern themselves? Evidently they approve of their system at higher rates, believe democracy is more important at higher rates, and believe they are democratic at higher rates, all of which are consistent.

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          What is democracy if not rule by the people? What better objective measure of democracy would you posit than the people directly saying that their input is heard, their interests are pressed forth, and that their structure is democratic?