China is so democratic that it jails anyone trying to make the country more democratic:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhiyong
employs censorship and surveillance to prevent people from bottom-up organizing:
https://mas.to/@jackofalltrades/111193605258009484
and even Xi himself says that democracy is not suited for current times, because it "requires consensus, and it takes too much time, too much effort to get it together":
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/04/21/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-democratic-national-committee-fundraiser-3/
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2024-05-01 14:39:50
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