thegreatdivide wrote on Sep 9
th, 2022 at 2:00pm:
Karnal wrote on Sep 9
th, 2022 at 1:38pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Sep 9
th, 2022 at 1:23pm:
Trump did win c. 75 million votes , cf Biden's c.78 million. It's too close for comfort.
So a confused, incompetent electorate has driven Trumpy mad....
We are all mad..what's with this roughly 50-50 split in democratic elections?
We call it the two-party system, Great. It's HeGeLiAn. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
In reality, the blind leading the blind; while secretive, elitist central bankers laugh all the way to the bank (Lowe won't suffer much from his confused interest rate gambit...)
Quote:You people have a one-party system. You have a dictatorship of the proletariat. That's pseuo-MaRxIsT, or what we call state CaPiTaLiSt.
Note: I have outed myself previously ....I'm ozzy (though not ocker...)
But a consensus one party meritocracy might have some advantages over the confused adversarial rabble aka democracy...
Quote:Dear Leader only got to where he is by crashing one of two parties, the GOP, or Great Old Party.
Yes, in the blind-self-interestedrabble leading the blind-self-interested oppositional rabble, in the US. .
Quote:Sleepy Joe Biden's in the Dems. They's called DeMoCrAtS. They compete with the faction that's taken over the GOP, known as MAGA, short for Making America Great Again.
They're a group of white supremacist neo-Nazis who want to destroy the two-party system and make America like Russia (Great Again). Their Dear Leader got busted ordering an insurrection to overturn an elected prez. He also plotted a military coup, but that never went anywhere. The generals hate him, you see, because he called soldiers chumps and dead soldiers losers.
As you can see, their Dear Leader is nothing like your Dear Leader, apart from the one-party thing.
Thoughts?
Trump talks about MAGA, but ignores disadvantage in the ghettos.
A stated goal of
common prosperity is a good basis for government.
If Xi can eliminate corruption, as Chinese living standards rise, he may well put the democracies to shame.
The world is watching....meanwhile Trumpy is still in with a chance, in the US...where half the population are acccusing the other half of the population of being "a threat to the state"...
Without a consensus two party duopoly, Great, Dear Leader would still be in.
Therein lies the benefits of what we modestly call DeMoCrAcY.
Chairman Xi cannot possibly eradicate corruption. A one-party monopoly guarantees it. If Sleepy Joe Biden, a complete cleanskin had a political monopoly, he'd have corruption too.
Corruption is not eradicated by benign dictators, dear, it's SyStEmIc.
Sure, you can have a bit of corruption in a duopoly like America, but the example of Donald J Trump shows us exactly what happens when would-be dictators misbehave.
Nixon is another example, and he was a bunny by comparison. Imagine, a few dirty tricks and a Watergate break in. Kid's stuff.
We now have the example of a Russian-backed foreign agent who blackmailed a foreign power to get dirt on a political rival's son, plotted a military coup, launched an attempted insurrection and stole over 11,000 government records that contain even more criminal evidence.
What would they do with such a politician in Chi-na?
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