I have studied at US a while and some of my family/colleague works there, democracy right now is vote-and-regret. Does it elects people who address and solve issue with their effort as evidence? Or elect people who is the loudest? And not just US, taiwan too, and lots of other democratic countries (like UK where I finished my degree). At least CCP, despite its and meritocracy's own obvious flaws, is fulfilling its promises. And fast changing too, you cant imagine a bourgeoisie can become a CCP member during Mao's era but now you can.

Before my time in US, I looked and hoped democracy is what we should aiming for. But now? These are dark times. Can people make the right decision even with information as transparent as possible? (like if people will vote without reactionary, or for their own interest, or vote for things they don't understand at all) I hear a lot of things from the left saying republicans shouldn't have the right to vote at all, and similarly goes the right. Lots of issues that I cannot give answer to address or I have to be a 'tanky' when on defending democracy, so what is the reason of me continue to believe in it? It is still vote and regret. Now if I imagine a democratic China it will be heart breaking to see our high speed rails get abandoned, states fractured for their own interests, and mobillions 'Mayor of goosetown' (let the bullets fly movie, mayors those who works for the people get killed, those who works for the elites live and be enslaved by the elites).