I'm not against democracy, but I lived in a communist country and I know the difference before and after a dictatorship- force it and the whole place will turn like Russia or east european countries nowadays
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I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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Originally posted by Datajack Franit
I'm not against democracy, but I lived in a communist country and I know the difference before and after a dictatorship- force it and the whole place will turn like Russia or east european countries nowadays
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Whoa... a lot of stuff to reply to...
That's really funny seeing how he's not actually buried, rather, enclosed in plexiglass and put on public display in that tomb of his in Tiananmen.
Sure, there are no tanks in the streets now. But that doesn't mean it's stable. Likewise, if you have millions protesting in Washington, it doesn't mean the system in instable.
Excellent point. One can be oppressed under either. I suppose the difference is that under a dicatorship, the oppression can be actively directed by the gov't, whereas in the case of a corrupt democracy, it is a failure of the system. Good poll thread topic: which would you rather live under - a corrupt, inefficient democracy, or a benign, efficient dictatorship?
I'd rather live in Singapore than Zimbabwe.
From what I have seen, the outer provinces are even worse. In Xi'an, I remember taxis driving down crosswalks, and even on the sidewalk!
I think one of the greatest threats of instability under the current Chinese system comes from the lack of any defined process for the handover of power. It all comes down to secret, behind-the-scenes power struggles within the Party. That kind of transition can be peaceful ... or it can lead to a Cultural Revolution.
btw, does anyone know about the license plate fiasco in Beijing?Poor silly humans. A temporarily stable pattern of matter and energy stumbles upon self-cognizance for a moment, and suddenly it thinks the whole universe was created for its benefit. -- mbelleroff
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