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It's because our own political apparatus is not that different from the Chinese one. We just like to pretend we still have a choice with our "democratic vote".

You won't be able to dismantle it or even to reduce the huge amount of money it consumes.

You won't be able to escape its rules. We should be thankful we're still able to leave for the least worse country.

The real disease is called statalism and we're seeing the symptoms of that.

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In WW2 we had Lord Haw-Haw (the defector William Joyce). He is mocked in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" as the deranged voice yelling from the ruins

"The Statue of Liberty is kaput".

That's disconcerting.

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I can't prove I'm not Chinese propaganda but I'm torn between China having bought our politicians or just our politicians doing their thing, trying to gradually accumulate more power and money over 200 years. Probably both, considering China got wealthy relatively recently.