As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens

Re:As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens by quirkafleeg on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:01AM (#14235671)

> Can you vote and pick a guy from another party? Do other parties exist at all? Can you start your own party?

All you're illustrating with this one is that the US does a better job of faking democracy.

If China had a pro-establishment Democratic Communist Party alternative to a pro-establishment Communist Party, each sharing 99% of the resources, media, power and influence, along with infinite minnow parties that pose no threat to the system or established order because the system doesn't allow them to, it would be as democratic as the US.

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Re:As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens by partycoder on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:04AM (#14235858)

Maybe a small party will not make it to the presidency because of the issues you have mentioned (to that also add electoral trickery like gerrymandering).

But there are many branches of government that can help influence government, and you can also run for office within your state. Here some states have independent senators.

In China you don't really have independent branches of government, it's just the Chairman of the party and whatever he wants is what gets done.

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