{"id":710721,"date":"2026-11-06T22:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710721"},"modified":"2026-11-06T22:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:23:46","slug":"dissatisfaction-with-democracy-china-celebrates-the-midterm-elections-as-evidence-that-democracy-is-dying-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710721","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dissatisfaction With Democracy&#8221;: China Celebrates The Midterm Elections As Evidence That Democracy Is Dying In The West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>China is not the only country taking a victory lap&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill once famously observed that &#8220;No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.&#8221; His observation came to mind this week after China&#8217;s state-run Global Times wrote an article in the wake of the U.S. midterms that celebrated the imminent death of democracy, <em><strong>noting that &#8220;the &#8216;myth&#8217; of Western-style democracy is losing its appeal,<\/strong><\/em> even in the West<em><strong>.&#8221; It appears that Americans are ready to embrace the simplicity and tranquility of Mao-like single-party rule.<\/strong><\/em> After all, Hasan Piker already has the Mao jacket to go with the rise in support for socialism and the nationalization of industries.<\/p>\n<p>China is not the only country taking a victory lap. <strong>Iran, which previously encouraged voters for the Democrats in opposition to the Administration, declared<\/strong><strong> that Americans supported its position on the war.<\/strong> It is like the Legion of Doom throwing victory celebrations for America.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, a <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2026\/09\/24\/bring-on-the-generals-roughly-60-percent-of-polled-democrats-would-support-a-military-coup\/\">recent survey<\/a> found <strong>roughly six in 10 (59%) Democrats polled said they would feel &#8220;very positive&#8221; or &#8220;somewhat positive&#8221; if the US military removed Trump and seized control of the American government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/dissatisfaction-democracy-china-celebrates-midterm-elections-evidence-democracy-dying\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/dissatisfaction-democracy-china-celebrates-midterm-elections-evidence-democracy-dying<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is not the only country taking a victory lap&#8230; Winston Churchill once famously observed that &#8220;No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government, except for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710723,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710721\/revisions\/710723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}