Interesting that this post came right after you told me to get out of the mindset that America had any legitimacy to begin with and it only had brute force. So what if America seized power through violence? So did the Romans, so did the Caliphates, so did Chinese dynasties, but they all cemented their rule through legitimacy and America is no different. (Well tbf in the case of the caliphates, they largely had their Persian subjects to thank for making them legitimate) Democracy, Capitalism, Rule of Law, you can't deny all of these were buzzwords that America used to justify its rule and win the hearts and minds of people around the world. And even if it was hogwash, especially since the 90's what alternative global ideaology existed?
My point exactly was that as it stands, Trump is going to weaken democracy and the rule of law, and that capitalism's failure to distribute the profits equitably is what lead even many people who are not racist being willing to put up with him for another four years. You want Chinese people to "shut the fuck up about imaginary west," let Trump cook and turn the apple pie of America into a burnt inedible shell while China works and gives its people the sweatest, plumpest 汤圆 they've ever tasted.
Laying everything down on the media once again, lol. Biden for four years fed a narrative to the American people through the all mighty media apparatus of CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NYTimes that the American economy was the best in the world, and that they should be thankful unlike recession wracked Europe and Japan or those Chinese with their paltry 5% GDP growth. But just last week those same people told him and his entire party to fuck off.
The CPC is not such a government, they acknowledge their shortcomings and actually win legitimacy through material benefits that the Chinese people can actually feel in their hands. There's still work to be done, but they actually are devoted to their work while America continues to be the giant circus with no bread.
ranma is a classic.