Mattyfisk wrote on Sep 9
th, 2022 at 6:46pm:
Without a consensus two party duopoly, Great, Dear Leader would still be in.
Therein lies the benefits of what we modestly call DeMoCrAcY.
Jan 6th Capitol riots?
Quote:Chairman Xi cannot possibly eradicate corruption.
But he can...at least as much as any government can eradicate corruption.
Quote:A one-party monopoly guarantees it. If Sleepy Joe Biden, a complete cleanskin had a political monopoly, he'd have corruption too.
He has it now; half his Dems are on the take - corruption is systemic in adverarial democracies as well.
Quote:Corruption is not eradicated by benign dictators, dear, it's SyStEmIc.
Simplistic: given the instinctive self interest of men, all systems are potentially corrupt.
Quote: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.
As I said, Xi's party is driven by the goal of common prosperity, cf Trump's self-interested MAGA without regard to entrenched disadvantage in the US.
Quote: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?
Imprison him.
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