It surprises the west that a government is so well liked by its citizens. They don’t understand how China is improving everyone’s quality of life. Not like in the US, where it only improves the lives of the wealthy.
It’s so unbelievable that a populace would support its government that westerners will invent conspiracy theories to explain it away.
People here would seriously rather believe that all 1 billion+ Chinese people are brainwashed or paid actors than to believe that the Chinese government is good, actually.
"As an American, it’s no wonder our citizens are distrustful of CPC. In addition to a lifetime of propaganda, we have never experienced a government with citizens’ interest in mind
Nearly everyone, if not every single person, in America that will read this has never seen our government and politicians do ANYTHING that would advance the lives of its citizens, no matter how small the action might be. When/if anything slightly beneficial is done, cynical ulterior motives are the reason. Advancement of ruling class interests are the overwhelming reason we get anything, i.e. paltry checks during the covid pandemic.
We have never known otherwise. When Americans see the Chinese government implement policies that increase the wellbeing of the population, their minds automatically assume it’s for nefarious reasons. The thought of a government ensuring their citizens are safe, taken care of and prosperous is unheard of.
No matter the party affiliation, or if they’re avowed communists all the way to the far right base of Republican neo-fascists, everyone knows politicians that make up the government are A.) beholden to capital and B.) out for themselves.
Congress is laughably unpopular, if not right out loathed by all of us. When decades of racist propaganda, fabrication and malicious lies are added to the mix, no one can possibly fathom leadership being altruistic."
Arguably, this is part of cultural DNA of the united states, which forebears arrived to escape authoritarian persecution, and whose Constitution assumes the state is there to deprive the rights from citizens, which must be protected from the state via laws, rather than believing that a state can also work to specifically enact and protect those rights, that without a state there ARE no rights.
Nearly everyone, if not every single person, in America that will read this has never seen our government and politicians do ANYTHING that would advance the lives of its citizens, no matter how small the action might be. When/if anything slightly beneficial is done, cynical ulterior motives are the reason.
This mentality is actually part of the problem: the right-wing talking point that governments never ever ever do anything good. See the Reagan quote about “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” It’s demonstrably untrue and we shouldn’t fall into reinforcing it from the left.
They may rate it that way, but China is still an authoritarian cencorious government. I’m sure the Uigars wouldn’t rate the Chinese government very highly. Not saying the US government is great, but the Chinese government is more worrying.
You think the decaying capitalist military empire with a nuclear first-strike policy who’s upper military ranks are all Christian fundamentalist psychos is less worrying?
America is on the downswing, hard, and China is pulling further and further ahead as it is. Who do you think has more to gain by doing something crazy to distrupt such an arrangement? America, like all empires before it, has never taken well to humiliation, and is already halfway through going fash. I don’t think you give enough credit to just how ugly we get when the illusion of fineness becomes impossiboe to maintain.
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It’s funny how you’re criticising me with something that the US doesn’t do, but China does. Don’t make it sound like I’m in support of the US, I wouldn’t want to live there. Probably would want to live in Sweden. But I also wouldn’t want to live in China, for different reasons. It seems like just because China claims it’s ‘socialist’, you think it must treat its citizens well. I’m all in support of true socialism. But China just uses ‘socialism’ or communism as a method to oppress, control, monitor and censor its citizens.
I’m curious what your idea of “true socialism” is 🤔 In contrast, is “true capitalism” a thing? I’m just asking questions.
The US absolutely does credit score, without it you can’t take a loan to buy a car or a house and many other things. It is weird that you don’t know this…
China is developing socialism, they are in the primary stage of socialism. Developing socialism is a long-term arduous process, it is not a state of mind. I recommend you reading the Governance of china by Xi Jingping, the general secretary of the CPC, it is a collection of essays and speeches by Xi with a very rich reference section, where a lot of concepts are clearly explained.
China’s economy did not get to this point by exploiting global south countries like Europe/US did, they did it by developing their own productive forces, especially after the ‘Reform and opening-up’, accepting foreign investment to learn from it and modernize the country. They did not let foreign investment run rampant, they had strict conditions that foreign investors had to follow. This is why they are constantly called authoritarian, because they did not let foreign investors run rampart.
Living, and thus working, conditions in China were terrible (and are in many places still) precisely because they were a backwards country that endured decades off exploitation by other countries. But the conditions of the people of china have been getting better and better exponentially since the opening up reform, this is simply a material reality not ‘ccp propaganda’.
Sweden is not ‘true socialism’, it is a late-stage capitalist country; an imperialist country, a country where finance capital rules. Their wealth comes from the exploitation of the global south mainly through the finance system (predatory loans to global south countries, extracting rent forever and ever), like all other european countries.
I think this one comment alone filled a bunch of the lib bingo boxes.
I think “using big words they don’t understand to sound smart” was probably one of the squares missing from it tbh. They love have a proclivitic tendancy for doing that.
This reads like parody, holy shit. I couldn’t do a fake lib comment better no matter how hard I try. Ticks all the goddamn boxes.
I made a comment here yesterday about this hoax.
Is there a more updated version? The link was published 3 years ago.
Not quite the same thing, but there’s this study from 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20230105183832/https://latana.com/democracy-perception-index/
Every time I try to download the 2022 report, it fails every single time.
Oh looks like archive shat the bed there, I managed to track down 2023 instead https://web.archive.org/web/20230511041927/https://6389062.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6389062/Canva images/Democracy Perception Index 2023.pdf
@yogthos It sucks that if you tell your average Joe this, they will call you every slur in the book.
