<p>I found an interesting video recently. It really does highlight the chinese perspective of a one party communist state.</p>
<p>I think most of you here would find it interesting and perhaps even surprising.</p>
<p>[Eric</a> X. Li: A tale of two political systems | Video on TED.com](<a href=“http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_systems.html]Eric”>http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_systems.html)</p>
<p>It really does make me wonder if democracy truly is the best approach.</p>
<p>Feel free to surrender your U.S. passport & join the land of governance paradise.</p>
<p>I work in a different country every few years and have seen the gamut of systems from monarchy, democracy, to authoritarian rule. I rate the attractiveness of a politcal system by how people vote with their choice of passport. I observe a lot of foreigners now “hooking up” w China temporarily for an economic hot date, but that’s not the same thing as tying the knot by seeking citizenship or permanent residency status. </p>
<p>I watched the linked video. Appalling piece of propaganda. I wonder if the parents in Sichuan who were beaten & jailed for complaining about gov’t corruption as the root of the thousands of children killed in the pancaked gov’t-built schools in the 2008 earthquake, think their gov’t is enlightened and accountable. Must be nice for a political party to never be voted out power no matter what it does, even if it suppresses knowledge of melamine-laced baby formula and deliberately lets babies die, so not to overshadow the Olympics.</p>
<p>In gov’ts which are democratic and have governance transparency, the children of civil servants do not drive Lambourghini’s while the gov’t throws people out of their homes.</p>
<p>I’ll stick w democracy.</p>