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It is in the way it is used now: Open markets to gain access to the media. Use positions in companies to pay politicians. Use that to control the elite or replace it.
Lemmy and Reddit show how few people care about free media on their own. The US republicans show how much distortion is possible. The West has the best entertainment. The prospect of each country that allows western elites would be to be treated worse than black people in Mississippi or Alabama.
Without that threat I don’t think that China and Russia could maintain their cohesion for their dictatorships. They would also transition to democracy. Democracy is best because it allows for a violence free transition of power. It just doesn’t work if outsiders tip the scale.
Do you think democracy is not an existential threat to the current regimes of Russia and China!?
It is in the way it is used now: Open markets to gain access to the media. Use positions in companies to pay politicians. Use that to control the elite or replace it.
Lemmy and Reddit show how few people care about free media on their own. The US republicans show how much distortion is possible. The West has the best entertainment. The prospect of each country that allows western elites would be to be treated worse than black people in Mississippi or Alabama.
Without that threat I don’t think that China and Russia could maintain their cohesion for their dictatorships. They would also transition to democracy. Democracy is best because it allows for a violence free transition of power. It just doesn’t work if outsiders tip the scale.