If you think that is the choice basket to put your eggs in, best of luck.
Thanks God nothing like that could happen in the US, thanks to its constitution, courts and armed informed citizens. That's why I'm putting all my eggs in that basket.
If you don't think it's important or needed, well, there is still a lot for you to learn.
US per capita spending on healthcare: $13,473 per person
China per capita spending on healthcare: ~$763 per person
Both have average life expectancy of 79 years. LITERALLY China has better healthcare, better housing, literally better in all the ways that count.
What does our "democracy" get us exactly???
No midterm routs in China.
For Europe, the answer is using homegrown metal, even if it is severely underpowered, and accepting that it will be running American and Chinese open-source models for the near future. (The French lobbyists looked likely to turn Mistral into another Arianespace, but they’ll be resisting implosion for at least another year.)
I'm not saying this is good, I'm merely stating that the central committee power and Xi's power is still limited by the sheer size of the Chinese state. If you compare that dictatorship to the Stalin dictatorship or Gheddafi dictatorship you'll find that Xi does not have that kind of unfettered power through sheer violence, he still needs to make a high number of cogs to work in unison to exercise it.
A single court ruling overturning an order from Xi will shut me up immediately.
> In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote.
At least the Chinese president isn't a pedophile enriching himself at the expense of the Chinese people. China has steadily increased the quality of life for its people where the quality of life for the average American has steadily decreased.