Reply to post: Re: China is not a democracy

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Eddy Ito

Re: China is not a democracy

because in a democracy there are at least mechanisms for checks and balances. In the dictatorships of the World what the dictator declares goes...

A true democracy doesn't have any such mechanisms, it's largely just mob rule and in its pure form is little different from any other oppressive regime. Democracy's only fortune, or failure, is that it tends to be less consistent in its oppression.

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