[luckylion]

> This branch of comments goes back to a commenter who made the accurate point that the US is closer to a liberal democracy than China.

No. The comment said the US is a liberal democracy. Not "closer", IS.

It's like "hey, this number is 100!" - "no, that number is 13" - "but 13 is closer to 100 than 2".

[glenstein]

I'm just going to note that you glazed over about 95% of the substance of my comment and re-direct you back toward that.