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The Realignment

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The Chinese Communist Party Is Not What It Says It Is

There's this great visual by m e r i c s merricks that shows the chinese political spectrum, right? And it is a political spectrum. They e, they don't all mean civilian person, um, you know, country. If communism is what the chinese communist party says it is, then quotncot democracy is what the american democrat party said it was. So if somebody who is disalined with the republican party wins an election, well, that's an attack on democracy. It's actually not a process. It's a party. Just like communism is not, youknow, a process of communism. It's whatever the chinese communese party says

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