Not gonna lie, being in good faith, the Chinese government having a 90% approval rate looks sus, at least to a Westerner. The West looks at this and shouts “That means they are brainwashed!” which I don’t buy into. Yet that idea that all these anti-imperialist people are just brainwashed really, well, brainwashes a lot of people. How can this be countered?
Westerners cannot imagine believing their government properly represents them because theirs never have. Similarly, since our news media skews so heavily destructive or negative, constructive and positive news pieces coming out of the DPRK and China look like naivete and lies to the jaded westerner.
There can be no good state, for our state is bad. There can be no good news, for our news is bad. There can be no peaceful state, as our state vies for war. There can be no freedom from poverty, as we are all poor. There can be no anti-imperialism, as our state is imperialist. Every country must be comitting genocide, as our state is. On and on and on, compounded and compounded. It’s depressing to say the least, to have so little hope in humanity so as to believe homo amerikanus and homo europaeus are the measuring block for nation-building worldwide, when human beings (and their states!) around the world are demanding a rupture from status quo suffering.