I dont consume American news outlets if I can help it <| sep |> It ' s entirely games being played with formal logic notation without regard to reality . Imagine someone taking this statement is a lie and drawing it out to a conclusion using modal logic . It ' s a logical parlor trick , with about as much proof for a deity as the Aquinas 5 proofs . The premise is flawed , and it just builds from there . <| sep |> As someone who DOES live in China , you have no idea how bad things could potentially get . China is not dramatically worse , for the vast majority of people . It is however completely conditional on whoever is in charge and has the reigns of power . Xi Jinping has tightened the controls on a freeing nation to an unprecedented degree during his reign , and while economically and socially the country is fine , the entire government is focused on the unilateral concentration of power . America isn ' t great , and there is not a lot of evidence for direct or indirect democracies being good for the people overall but tyranny is not that great , either . There ' s a lot of truth in Winston Churchhill ' s saying about democracy being the worst system of government , except for all the others .