Liberal democracy

Have you even read what I wrote?

The difference between Hilary Clinton and John Bolton I think it is their backers. John Bolton is paid around $2 million a year to express his views by oil companies and banks (That is on his Wikipedia page).

Fundamentally I think democrats and republicans are both backed by corporate elites, but different factions. Tech companies mostly back democrats, oil companies clearly back republicans. Banks and military industrial complex I think back both, I believe that is why during Obama era banking reforms were mostly cosmetic but even those cosmetic reforms are being removed by republicans.

Back to the point, since Hilary Clinton is not backed by oil companies, the urgency to invade Iran is less. Invading Iran is actually mostly going to benefit oil companies, which in turn benefit republicans. So her hawkish tones are more towards Russia and China, I think in a bid to further increase defense budget. That is military industrial complex speaking through her mouth.

Then how come you are so naive? The "communist hell" you are talking about. Let's put aside whether China is truly communist or not (in your mind it must be), there have been more than hundreds of millions of Chinese traveled aboard and they all went back, why? Many Chinese received foreign citizenship from countries like US, Canada and Australia, but still a large portion of them went back to live in China. There are people from Canada, US and Europe happily living in China, you can see plenty of youtube channels from these people, almost as many as the ones from westerners living in Japan, why would they want to live in the "communist hell"?

From what I understand most of Eastern European countries once they went through liberal democratic reform living standards of people in those countries actually became worse. In more extreme cases Russia went back to Putin leadership and people seem much happier, that is one of the reasons Putin has a 80 ~ 90% approval rating (I believe these polls were actually conducted by western organizations). People are not fools, they know whether their lives are getting better or worse.

If you read my piece then you would probably know I think media censorship in these countries are understandable. Corporate media are corporate propaganda machines. You appear to be the latest victim of them.

I am not a fan of Trump, but even I admit when he called some media outlets as "fake news" he was not wrong, but of course Fox news is not any better. These news outlets are biased to say the least, from what I can see they hardly ever report anything impartially and truthfully.

I don't think liberal democracy is real democracy, more of corporate democracy or capital democracy, no matter which country it is in. So if you are saying it is a con game I agree, not just in third world countries, but in US as well.

If we are talking about "democratic socialism" as Bernie Sanders calling is, I am thinking it is more along the line of "responsible capitalism" or "progressive capitalism"as I would call it. People like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos are worrying about the survival of capitalism. I remember one hedge fund manager put it like this:"It is very difficult to spend what I earn. How many real estate, yachts and private planes can I buy? But if we keep making money and not spending it, capitalism won't work."

Those thoughts are inline with what Karl Marx pointed out centuries earlier in his books like "Das Kapital" (I am not a socialist by the way). I think Jeff Bezos in an interview said something along the lines of "I made hundreds of billions dollars and the only way I could spend that much money is through investing in space travel."

Bernie Sanders could be a bit on the edge towards real socialism, so I don't think he will get elected in democratic primary, one of the reasons there are so many candidates I believe is to reduce his odds and dilute his votes. Even if he won, many of his policies would unlikely to pass, the democrats as a political party is still largely controlled by corporate funding.