What a NEEEEERRRRRRRRRRD.

But the “consultative democracy” stuff is really good to bring up. There really should be a lot more “propaganda” publicizing the election systems in socialist countries, showing how much more vibrant political participation is in so many non-Western countries.

Even just that little series of clips of people voting in China would break a bunch of Americans’ brains.

Just compare the process of putting a ballot in a box next to a bunch of other people in a room to elections in the US where vote-rigging electronic voting machines and other nonsense turn the whole process into a joke. I like doing mail-in voting in Seattle but it is definitely so far removed from anything I’d call democracy. The place where they count ballots has camera feeds on it and stuff but that doesn’t really matter, it’s completely divorced from actual transparency just because of how it’s all “taken care of” for us (yes you can become an elections worker).

Elections that have more than a hundred voters are absurd.