Can the West’s democracy survive China’s rise to dominance?

[oprih]

We can not be brain washed as we do not have re-education camps like china and we are not forced to see movies of our presidentp

Too bad you poor indians are forced to defecate on the roads.

 

[LASER1]

I don't know any Chinese is "forced" to watch movies of Chinese president, neither have I heard people got arrested for not watching president movie. So yes, you are brainwashed.

But they did force to hang pictures of Chinese president over churches.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...inese-christians-told/?utm_term=.7bb913c213e7
And the usual response to that will be "western propaganda". Save it. I know.

And I was not aware of any presidents in India forced us to watch movies about them. India is not a presidential democracy, shows your knowledge on the matter.

Brainwashing is there; let's face it, no one would be worshipping Congress icons the way they do had we not got "Gandhi ji's Talisman" in every CBSE book.

But we did had a Choice, at least for the people who read books (eg: My experiments with truth). I don't see Gandhi as a congress icon, he grows beyond that.

To an extent, this congress praise has grown out of hand, but the Congress is intellectually weak. They always have been, unlike the left and right-leaning parties. The Congress depended on the left to complement their lack of intellectual, hence we get to learn large sections about Soviet revolution, Lenin, Karl Marx, Socrates. Failed to have one good section about our revolutionaries rather we were stuck with very few stories. The current BJP is not doing enough to revive it.

The only difference is, the way in which brainwashing is administered.

You have a slightly different idea about Brainwashing. Take the Tiananmen Square massacre and Gujrat riots for example. (Although, one was state-sponsored violence while other was a communal riot) We still can discuss it. Maybe take a potshot at Modi, I can send a postcard to Modi, alleging him of instigating communal violence and just live in peace afterward. For godsake, we are living in a country where we can call the Prime minister a mass murder because his politics don't align with mine, in a public media. We can do the same about Congress or communist (in India). We are not brainwashed, we are given choice to believe and not to. We often made it clear we would love totalitarian systems. But we are too scared to put a dictator to power for too long. Our writers are not kidnapped by governments, our human rights lawyers are not tortured or killed lastly, we still have our culture.

 

[HariPrasad]

Too bad you poor indians are forced to defecate on the roads.

We have significantly reduced that but can enjoy with 45% people having nonsanitation.

I don't know any Chinese is "forced" to watch movies of Chinese president, neither have I heard people got arrested for not watching president movie. So yes, you are brainwashed.

If i am brain washed, the source is pdf where I read the news. You have not heard doesn't mean it is not there. ItIis called brain washing.

 

[haidian]

But they did force to hang pictures of Chinese president over churches.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...inese-christians-told/?utm_term=.7bb913c213e7

A weird not well educated village head may have an odd idea to run the village but if you believe that what happens in a remote village represents the whole China, that's just stupidity.

Take the Tiananmen Square massacre and Gujrat riots for example. .

There was no Tiananmen massacre, another proof how badly you are brainwashed by the western media, some people died from the clash, yes, but only evil motivated ones call that a massacre.

When the west wants to attack Iraq, they call them possessing WMD weapns, when they want to attack China they say there was a massacre and some brainless Indians are so ready to believe whatever crap the western media feeds them , even Trump knows western media lies through their teeth.