There is a lot of talk about Chinese democracy these days so let's just pose a comparison. Both countries have large protests presently. Both countries are police states. US uses deadly force on its own citizens and kills more people through law enforcement than China. So +1US for dictatorship? Both countries abort millions of babies a year. Both countries have progressive tax policies. US is number one defense budget. China is number two. US has invaded more countries in last 10 years than China has in last 300 years. US has invaded more countries in last 50 years than China has in last 2000 years. Both have massive welfare states. China illegalizes heroine fights golden triangle. US illegalizes pot...kills hundreds of thousands in Mexico, grows opium in Afghanistan defends opium/heroine fields for CIA.
There are two differences between China and America, that a lot of people own a gun and have freedom of speech. And what if the powers that be or gov let people believe that the US is the same as China, by using police intimidation, deception and propaganda? Than there will be more resistance from society, that means a revolutionary process is taking place in the minds of the people. Because the most powerful thing to get control over a population is by using psywar and emotional propaganda. The human mind seem to have weaknessess. That must be emotion and curiosity. When you are curious about what is going on in your country and in politics, you start to become more part of hierarchy (emotionally 'glued' to it), also by an endless political struggle (over two centuries) If this hidden revolutionary process in the mind, and more and more in the streets by that (Ferguson could have been a provocation to stir up emotions, to force a community into revolting) continues in the same way as it did over the past fourteen years, America can become like China in the end. In other words, don't give the gov or powers that be more power than they already have stolen (they have the power to 'snatch' your mind), by not buying in to tyranny (which will become harder and harder the more you move ahead in time) Standing firm and try to stay calm (control over emotion) is the hardest thing when there is tyranny going on (television emits emotion) In China resistance starts to grow too, that also shows some kind of revolution inside the minds of the people is taking place (in Russia too, and so on), because this world can lose it's freedom (which is clearly done by let emotions rise in the world population, because it seems that if you reach the same emotional level in billions of people, that they start to become 'the same', they are becoming 'armies') So you need to try to bring down emotional level in people somehow (look at Ferguson, very high level of emotions, so that community is becoming more and more vulnerable by the day, and leader figures (on side of gov or system, never on side of the people) can misuse that level of emotion and start to organize these communities) But in China the opposite seems to happen, a revolution to end of red China. Because if powers are able to take over a huge nation like China from within, it can be done to American in the same way, but not that easy, because a lot of Americans own a gun, have freedom of speech, and America is not a mono culture as China, a more complex society. The main question is, function people's minds emotionally the same all over the world? Because if that is the case, every nation can become 'red' from within, by simply let rising emotions in the masses by using tyranny, propaganda and emo-politics and all other things that let emotional level rise.
You forgot to mention our bill of rights (the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th amendment in particular) that's gotta be -5 for the US on dictatorship, at least. Thousands of Chinese prisoners are executed (they are VERY big death penalty supporters) vs. less then 100 U.S. prisoners executed each year. The fact that we live in a democracy (at least to some extent) where we can vote on issues. -5 US for dictatorship More people died under Mao Zedong's rule of China (estimated at between 40 million and 70 million) then in all of our wars combined (a little under a million). -10 US for our "dictatorship" I think I've made my point. China also doesn't live in a dictatorship now, it's basically a nondemocratic political system with a capitalist economy. North Korea has a dictatorship.
