Hi
A joke first:
Chinese student: hey I am Chinese. I came to your country to study and learn about your propaganda.
Democratic people: There is no propaganda here!!!
Chinese student: See, this is exactly why I came to study it here.
Got it???
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1,2,3 let's begin...
I'm new here and kind of like the discussion sections.
After reading plenty of posts, I want to share with you my thoughts about democracy and why I think it's dead.
I was born and raised in mmm, let's say an almost dictatorship and mmm, a civil war later etc etc, we got mmmm, some kind of democracy, but I never felt it is really suitable for my country and my people.
Fast forward, I studied and lived third of my life in western countries and the other third in communist and pseudo socialist countries like China,there I got an aha moment and kind of understood why China lifted around 800 millions people from poverty (United nation Numbers) and became a huge economic and technological player in just 30/40 years.
Fast forward, after plenty of researches about unique party countries, I found this
AHA MOMENT VIDEO:
youtube. com/ watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0
The guy in the TED talk explain very well how the Chinese one party works and how people are selected, and man, that sound so logical and realistic to me and that explains a lot of what I've seen and heard while I was in China.
So, take 20 minutes, watch the whole video and tell me.
Is democracy dead?
When you have just the powerful and rich who reach the top.
When corporation and banks sponsor them all.
Does it really work?
When you always have like 50% of the population unhappy after each vote.
When terms last 4 or 5 years only... come on, you can not even build a damn big highway in that period.
Basically, candidates spend 2 years to prepare for the vote, get elected, spend 2 years changing laws and making projects, then spend the other 2 years preparing for the next vote!!!
You see what i mean, no president has the realistic time to do anything serious for the long term.
Let's keep this clean and respectful.
Thank you for your insights.