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Ok 🤔
So what is to be done?

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Your post is a bit fractured due to referring to the US as a democracy when it is in fact a Republic.


Secondly, many websites and smart economists (FOX Biz and CNBC et al) will tell you China couldn’t catch us in 100 years. You are About to see the United States use its economic power to exert leverage on any country it wants to. You will see it today, turn on the news and you’ll see it tomorrow. Trump, through his finagling to get us oil independent, can easily push Iran around. Can you see Obama doing that? China not even near the successes we achieve every day, even as the Trump haters scream their guts out. BTW has anyone figured out yet what the Democrats can do that Trump has not already done ?

A good trump test we are about to witness is whether he can get India, China et al to stop buying oil from Iran. That’ll be tough.

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@averagejoe1 said
Your post is a bit fractured due to referring to the US as a democracy when it is in fact a Republic.


Secondly, many websites and smart economists (FOX Biz and CNBC et al) will tell you China couldn’t catch us in 100 years. You are About to see the United States use its economic power to exert leverage on any country it wants to. You will see it today, turn on the n ...[text shortened]... to witness is whether he can get India, China et al to stop buying oil from Iran. That’ll be tough.
A Republic is a Democracy pendejo

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@athousandyoung said
A Republic is a Democracy pendejo
You think the People's Republic of China is a democracy?

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@deepthought said
You think the People's Republic of China is a democracy?
It claims to be. Do you think the PRC is a Republic?

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@athousandyoung said
A Republic is a Democracy pendejo
A republic is a form of government where the head of state is not a hereditary position. This can be a democracy but also, e.g., a dictatorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic

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First of all, yes.

http://en.people.cn/constitution/constitution.html

Chinese people of all nationalities will continue to adhere to the people's democratic dictatorship and the socialist road, persevere in reform and opening to the outside world."


Second, it doesn’t matter. If it is a Republic than it is a Democracy. If it is not a Democracy than it is not a Republic. Many countries use the word ‘Republic’ in a deceptive way that implies the people have power to elect representatives when they actually don’t.

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@kazetnagorra said
A republic is a form of government where the head of state is not a hereditary position. This can be a democracy but also, e.g., a dictatorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/republic

1. A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.

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This subject is frankly too ‘big’ for me to get into, since it is a ‘factually based” thread, a lot of detail readily searchable, no point just throwing facts at each other, I respectfully abstain. But I leave with this.....

Even tho China is ahead in GDP, step back a bit and take note: China GDP “per Capita” is One Third that of the USA. Go Trump.

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It does mean a dictatorship. It is a paradox. China uses words like ‘democratic’ and ‘republic’ simply because it sounds good and makes good propaganda.

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