Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing
by roywiggins on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:30PM
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Our parties change around every half century or so. The US has gone through several rearrangements of parties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Party_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Party_System
We're arguably currently on the sixth one.
Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing
by Joakal on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @12:34AM
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That's not a fair comparsion as the current Chinese party has only been in power 'democratically' since 1949.
That said, my above point is about non ruling party representatives. In Europe, there tends to be more than 5 different parties, showing plenty of voter choice is possible.
Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing
by atombender on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:30PM
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The constitution defines China as "a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants" [1]. It may be "democratic" in the sense that elections are held, but it's not a democracy in the modern sense.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_democratic_dictatorsh...
Funny thing is, people say one party system is not a democracy. What about USA's two party system? Both of them have representatives elected by people (baring the violence).
But in both, people can't realistically get a new party in government, let alone run the country. Yet new parties get elected in other parts of the world, even if they don't run the government as a majority.