Wasn't too long ago that being considered too far on the left in the US was a professional and social death sentence.
Was neither too long ago that anybody who opposed illegal wars of aggression, torture, and state-sponsored assassinations, was deemed a "treacherous terrorist supporter" who might as well have flown the planes into the towers themselves, the earlier versions of that involved sending armed soldiers to violently break up peaceful student protesters ala Kent State.
Heck, "race riots" are a regular thing in the US to this day, yet somehow not considered political, nor the countless black activists that were jailed, left to live in exile, or straight up assassinated in the US [0], somehow none of that is considered "political" [1].
Add in the reality how the US has not just the biggest prison population, but also the highest incarceration rate on the planet, and it comes across as a bit tone-deaf to constantly evoke how in the "evil not US countries" people are allegedly getting vanished in droves, but never ever in the US [2].
[0] https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/rakem-balogun-...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/more-than-80-percent-of-the-...
Because if you criticise the Chinese government you disappear for a few months at best. If you’re unlucky you’re never seen again.
> countries you call "democracies" are allies of the United States, while countries you call "dictatorships"
That’s an extraordinarily bold claim and I think you should have to back it up with some evidence. Which of the countries that are called dictatorships do you think are unjustly labeled as such?