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2010-08-20 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese General Declares Democracy The Ultimate Weapon

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Posted by tu3031 2010-08-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Americans equate democracy with freedom and liberty, but in truth, these are side effects. The real value of democracy lies in efficiency at a low level. Beyond a few tiers, however, democracy requires republicanism to maintain this efficiency.

And breakdowns can happen. Either through disenfranchisement of an important segment of the public, or a lack of discipline in selecting republican representatives.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-20 00:57|| 2010-08-20 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 China will have democracy...eventually. They're big on long-term plans. It will take 50 years or so. China is afraid of chaos more than anything else, if they held elections today, Canton and Hong Kong would vote their own parties in to power (or even secede from PRC by popular demand), and the rest of the nation would fall apart.

Posted by gromky 2010-08-20 03:31|| 2010-08-20 03:31|| Front Page Top

#3 America was the original revolutionary nation. The concept that 'all men are created equal' while imperfectly implemented, none the less strikes a cord with most of humanity. Except, of course, the ruling elite both abroad and at home, who insist that they and only they are more equal than others. That concept is so revolutionary because it treats man as something more than just another species on the planet that struggles for base hierarchical dominance, again unlike the ruling elite which does. It is a powerful concept as reflected in the time resources directed against it. Yet, as imperfect it is executed, it has provided more benefits for more people, well beyond the usual tribal identification, than any other time in history. Liu has grasped what hundreds of thousands of 'educated' Americans have failed to understand. Then again, Liu compares America with the rest of the world. The 'educated' Americans compared America with their concepts of unattainable perfection.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-08-20 07:47|| 2010-08-20 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Democracies, real democracies not the fake ones like Saddam had, aren't interested much in conquest or wars of aggression.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-08-20 09:13|| 2010-08-20 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 "Political officer" - Liu's a commissar. Watch out for commissars talking "democracy". They're often "Lean and Hungry Cassius" on the make. Especially when they're also on an anti-corruption kick. That's how the new Maoists talked during the run-up to the Cultural Revolution. Is this guy talking sweet to the foreign press in English and talking up a purge of the cadres in Mandarin?

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-08-20 12:44|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-08-20 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 To paraphrase an old saying, THE GREATEST THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IS ITSELF.

1990's CLINTONISM > Among other, RIGHTISM IS THE "NEW LEFTISM" e.g. hence ARROGANT MALE BRUTE FASCIST = NATIONALIST/NATIONAL [Right-Socialist] AMERICA is leading the charge to establish motherly Femmez-vouz OWG-NWO = "GLOBALISM" = GLOBAL LEFTIST-SOCIALIST-GOVTIST COMMIE SOCIALIST WORLD ORDER.

Dare we fergit POST-USSR/SOVIET, 1990's RUSS "COMMPITALISM" [Communist Capitalism]
+ GLOBORIALISM [Global Materialism]???

But i digress ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-20 18:58|| 2010-08-20 18:58|| Front Page Top

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