Eric Zuesse
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
Is democracy fake in China? All of the scientific measures, a wide variety of polls regarding how the Chinese people feel about China’s Government and about Xi jinping personally, find that the Chinese, on the question of Approve versus Disapprove of China’s Government and of Xi Jinping, indicate that over 80% approve, and this is what a reasonable person would expect to find because, for example, the World Bank shows that while Xi has been in power since the end of 2012 until the end of the year 2022 (the latest year for which the World Bank has calculated this), China’s PPP GDP grew 100%, it doubled during that decade, while India’s rose 93%, the EU’s rose 58%, America’s rose 56%, Russia’s rose 49% (much less than it would have risen if Obama hadn’t been pouring sanctions against Russia starting in 2012), South Korea’s rose 30%, and Japan’s rose 19%. The entire world’s grew 63% during that decade. So, of all those economies, only China and India did better than the global average.
Is democracy fake in India? Its leader Narendra Modi has been in power since 2014, and India’s economic growth during 2012-2022 was nearly as high as was China’s; so there is little mystery regarding Modi’s having around an 80% approval-rating from the Indian people.
Both of those countries have populations a vast majority of whom indicate in scientific polling of them that they believe their national leader represents THEM and not merely some minority of the population. Who are the best-qualified individuals to make that determination? Of course, only the residents in that country are. No foreigners are.
Is the EU democratic? Its leaders have atrociously low approval from their respective publics. (and other polls have also found likewise.) Almost all of those countries are dictatorships.
Is America democratic? Its leaders have atrociously low approval from the U.S. public.
Is Russia democratic? Its head-of-state has had public-approval ratings from the Russian people ranging from 60% to 85% and averaging 75% throughout his leadership of Russia starting on 1 January 2000. Other aspects of the Russian Government don’t score nearly as high, it’s very uneven. It’s not like China, where the public have exceptionally high trust and respect not only for the head-of-state but for the Government, and even for their news-media.
Is South Korea a democracy? Its leaders have atrociously low public approval.
Is Japan a democracy? Its leaders have atrociously low public approval.
A clear relationship is exhibited in the data between a nation’s long-term economic growth (measured in PPP GDP) and the nation’s high job-approval for its leaders during that period. For example: China’s economy (PPP GDP) multiplied 21.83 times during the past 32 years 1990-2022, while the EU’s rose 2.6 times, America’s rose 4.27 times, India’s rose 10.7 times, Japan’s rose 1.63 times, South Korea’s rose 5.88 times, and the entire world’s rose 5.58 times. And, for the past 25 years, 1998-2022 inclusive, China’s rose 10.0 times, Russia’s rose 6.6 times, India’s rose 6.3 times, South Korea’s rose 4.36 times, the EU’s rose 2.1 times, America’s rose 2.81 times, Japan’s rose .03 times, and the world’s rose 2.83 times. The U.S. and its colonies (‘allies’) generally lag the world in economic growth, and appear to be falling farther and farther behind. The empire isn’t even keeping the U.S. itself above water internationally, but South Korea seems to be doing even better than the global average.
If a country has below 50% job-approval for its leader, and especially if that has been going on for a long time there, then a reasonable assumption is that it’s a dictatorship, because the public are being given only bad people to choose amongst, to vote for, or else otherwise the Party(s) that have a chance to win control there represent interests that are NOT the public’s interests (and these dictatorial conditions have been proven by numerous different methods to apply to the U.S. Government, which is thus far the world’s only Government that has been so extensively and scientifically analyzed on these matters). Any way you cut it, that’s NOT a democracy. It is a dictatorship. Whomever it represents, it’s NOT the public, and any ‘news’-medium there that pretends it is, is a lying ‘news’-medium, because, by now, the evidence on these matters is plentiful, and all of it shows that those nations are ruled by dictatorship, not by democracy. (Nowadays, almost all dictatorships are aristocracies, ruled by wealth, but a few are instead theocracies, ruled by clergy.)
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
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So called “Democracy” is not directly scalable. Just because you can take 100 people who all know each other and choose a “Leader” does not mean you can take 100 million people and do the same thing in the same way. So here is one possible methodology to accomplish this. Each “voter” must belong to a group of 10 (10 is arbitrary) people. From those 10 people a “Leader” is chosen. This person now represents that group. Those Leaders form groups of ten and repeat the above. Each Second level Leader represents 100 people. Third level Leaders represent 1000 people.… Read more »
Your comment is not relevant to this article. Regardless of whether voting for the leaders is direct by each voter or indirect by each voter voting instead for a representative who then will join the Government’s legislative assembly, the very same problem that this article discusses exists, and this problem is that only the wealthiest 1% of the wealthiest 1% are funding the careers of the successful politicians and are also owning or otherwise controlling the ‘news’-media to deceive the voters about the issues and the candidates so as to have the Government represent only that wealthiest 1% of the… Read more »
Is the article about democracy? Did I discuss democracy? Of course it’s relevant.
But we can simplify the whole process. Might makes right. End of story. We can talk from here to eternity about the trivial details.
You didn’t discuss democracy but instead tried to describe what you thought would be a way to make republicanism or indirect representation of the public “represent that group” or be democratic. But what happens if all of the ‘news’-media that this group are exposed to are controlled by the richest ten-thousandth of that group? Is THAT a democracy? You also advocate for “Might makes right” the Nazi ethic. You certainly did not “discuss democracy.” But you did advocate for dictatorship.
Or, we can simplify another way. Democracy is a joke. Take it to The Comedy Channel.
H. L. Mencken:
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance”
Democracy is not a form of government, it is a process. There is no such thing as a democratic government. Some governments use the process of democracy to decide certain issues, but using that process does not make the government a democracy. Every government is in fact a totalitarian dictatorship, and using a democratic process to decide who is in charge of the dictatorship does not constitute freedom or individual sovereignty. By what natural law does the decision of a plurality incumbent upon the minority? Democracy is a sham and a fraud designed to give legitimacy to modern dictatorships of… Read more »
If the majority of the public are and have long been dissatisfied with their Government and especially with its head-of-state, then the Government there is a dictatorship. Otherwise, it might be a democracy; and, if for more than just the past decade the nation’s public have had far higher than 50% job-approval-ratings for both the Government and the head-of-state, such as has been the case in China, then anyone who would call that Government a “dictatorship” or “authoritarian” or “totalitarian” is either a sucker or a liar. And that’s just a fact.
I think by this definition Hitler’s Germany was a Democracy.
The Congress has had less than a 50% approval rating since the 1970’s. That is not a Democracy….
Problem is what if a “sovereign individual” decides to commit murder, rape, or take a poop on the sidewalk. Who makes the rules which decide whether such behavior is acceptable or not?
Are you brain damaged? A sovereign individual, is by definition, a person that owns themselves and therefore owns their life.
Do you think self ownership means that you can commit crimes against others?
You should do yourself a favor and spend some time educating yourself on the principals of the non aggression principal.
I think Singapore probably has one of the best run Governments in the world.
You don’t get to go around spitting wherever you please.
And the American Punks who thought to amuse themselves by vandalizing cars got the whip. I hope the fools learned a lesson.