US dysfunctional government good for China

mmpleaser

With the crazy democracy created by the Republican dominated government (House , Senate and presidency), it has not moved one piece of major legislation to advance the country to a more prosperous environment for the population.

Whereas China goal is to create cleaner air and water,  move part of Beijing business out of the Capital city, move rural population into urban population, trying to use law to govern, creating trading platform with other countries along the one belt one road slogan, creating jobs for Chinese technical people to improve other countries to build major infrastructure (roads, trains, dams etc).

dragondick

This proves that democracy is NOT the best political system in the world and yet USA is trying to export or "force feed" democracy to other countries, e.g. Afghanistan, Iraq.  

mmpleaser

Democracy is defined as one man one vote, be the person rich or poor.

But US congress (House) has average of 750,000 persons per voting district, Senate 2 per state.
Senate the boundaries are set in concrete, not changes.
But House is not.  The boundaries of each district is defined by the state legislature, mostly every 10 years after Census.

There is a term called Gerry Mandaring (name after Gerry Mandar at 1812).
The voting districts could be drawn to favor one party, in this case Republicans mostly.

Trump was elected with a minority in total votes of whole countries, but the Congress has a majority of both House and Senate.

House due to the voter district lines and Senate due to the small states going Republican and converative, while larger ones going Democratic and liberal.  There are more small states than larger ones.

Urban areas have a larger population,  the voter districts can be drawn to get a minority of democrats from a big city to just let the district a little higher number of republican.  OR  let all the concentration of lots of democrats centered on one voter district with say 80% of democrats and thus still one congressman to waster the rest of population (ie sure win, but only one vote).

Democracy can be manipulated to your way, what can I say.

catergang

There's a Chinese story which is about a boy in ancient china whose horse runs away (misfortune) but turns out to be a blessing in disguise when that horse comes back and brings with it a bunch of other wild horses (fortune) but that turns out to be a curse in disguise when the boy rides one of the wild horses who shake him off and he breaks his leg (misfortune) but then that again turns out to be a blessing in disguise when government officials come to force all able-bodied men to join the army but the boy is exempted due to his broken leg (fortune). I forgot how it continues but it continues to alternate between fortunate developments and unfortunate. The moral of the story is that its very hard to fully grasp all the future consequences and judge whether something is good or bad.

The point I'm trying to make is that its also hard to say whether a dysfunctional US government is good or bad for China.

mmpleaser

John McCain is a true leader, though may not be the better of Obama and him during 2008 campaign.

ACA (aka ObamaCare) survived the stupid NON LEADERSHIP from TRUMP, who could not get ONE major legislation passed.