A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a small clique.
By that definition you could call the US, or various other countries, dictatorships. However I don’t see how Xi Jinping could not be objectively labelled a dictator.
Direct democracy FTW. Let people vote on any- and every-thing, for better or worse. People will learn and adapt, and if they get a chance to review policy this will be significant. Meanwhile, you cannot sustain any disinformation campaign indefinitely, even if they might be successful for the occassional vote.
Yes sure, but as I stated it’s possible to successfully run a disinformation campaign to cover an occassional vote. It’s also hard to run an opposition against an incumbent candidate when they will literally have you removed from congress on a whim.
Do you have any evidence of disinformation campaigns being directed by Xi towards political opponents internally within China or are you talking out of your ass
If I’m not mistaken, the US does not have direct democracy for presidential elections (https://www.usa.gov/electoral-college) nor the lawmaking process (https://www.usa.gov/how-laws-are-made). Unless you’re referring other forms of direct democracy in the US (https://ballotpedia.org/Forms_of_direct_democracy_in_the_American_states) or elsewhere in the world like Russian presidential elections.
As for how China’s president is elected, these two videos basically sum it up:
- How deputies are elected to people’s congresses https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-02-24/How-deputies-are-elected-to-China-s-people-s-congresses-1hGaCLluMtW/index.html
- How are Chinese leaders elected? https://news.cgtn.com/news/3267444d7a6b7a6333566d54/index.html
