1. In most, if not all countries, there are fewer intelligent people than less-intelligent people. Since an electoral democracy is a system where 2 idiots out-vote 1 smart person, democracy favours less-intelligent people’s decision. Democratic election is like a company without a Human Resource Department. All the people in the company including the cleaners and security guards can vote for the CEO. A socialism-meritocratic system is like a company which the CEO is chosen by the HR. 2. Three preconditions for a democracy to work: (a) no money politics. (b) 100% accurate news. (c) a population with more smart people than less smart people. When money comes into politics, like buying votes & controlling media, (a) & (b) are destroyed and a democracy becomes a plutocracy. Most of the news agencies today are corporate-owned or influenced by the ones who fund them. Public opinions are easily swayed no matter how educated the population is. Without these preconditions, democracy is fake. 3. When a party wins an election by a small margin, like 51% vs 49%, the legitimacy of the win is low, because the result could go either way. When a party wins by a large margin, like 80% vs 20%, the legitimacy of win is high, but it becomes a one party rule, because during the running of the government, the opposition has a small voice. So it’s self-contradictary, and neither end is ideal. Also, let’s say a party won by 51%, then it’s just a representation of half of the population’s interests. 4. In a democratic system, in the beginning, people choose the leader based on impression, not on the results. Election campaigns are superficial efforts where the better funded or the better marketed parties have an upper hand. For example, no one knew how Trump would perform as a President, he did not even have experience in managing a town. It’s only AFTER he became a president that people knew about him, by then damage was already done. Electoral democracy is often a case of “elect and regret”. In a social-meritocratic system the leader has to work his way up and backed by a good track record. 5. In a multiparty system, the country is divided right from the start. The sole aim of all parties is to win the next election. The parties bring along their supporter and people are then divided, and they waste a lot of time in constant fight and accusation. The US is currently at this state, it’s a divided nation. In Singapore and China. There’s much more political and social harmony. In democratic countries, political atmosphere often turn hostile and toxic. The level of trust in the society is low, especially towards the government. Take the pandemic as an example, in many democratic countries, when the governments told the people to wear masks, the opposition came out with all kinds of conspiracy theories, many people did not corporate. In China and Singapore, the people just followed the instructions because they trust the governments. Socialism follows a simple idea: “We can’t build when we are constantly in a fight. It’s when everyone work together, that we can build.” 6. Democratic countries face difficulties in implementing big changes. Plans, no matter how good they are, don’t get passed without a majority support. It’s natural for the opposition to not support any plans by the ruling party. Because their gain is our lost. As a result, many democratic countries suffered from stagnation. Democracy is a safety first approach, but the price to pay is very high. It’s akin to a person is afraid to fall, so he refuse to cycle, instead he choose to walk. It’s regressive in nature. 7. In democratic countries, the ruling party prefer short term plans that produce results before the end of the 4 or 5 year term, because in the next election the voters want to see results. Structural problems need long term plans. In fact, we seldom come across big and bold overhaul in democratic countries. Problems piled up eventually leads to stagnancy or even regression. In China and Singapore, there are long term plans in place. That’s why they grow more rapidly than democratic countries. In 1978, China and India had the same GDP. Today China has 5.3x the GDP of India. 8. In many democratic countries, after an election, many policies are changed, and many projects are thrown away, causing huge waste of resources. These countries often move one step forward and one step back. 9. Mentality of the politicians. In many democratic countries, it’s difficult to get policies implemented, the politicians instead resort to superficial work to please the people, instead of digging down to real fundamental things that may not bear fruit in short time. The politicians in a democratic system tend to have a mentality of a contractor who serve a contract. The mentality of the leaders in Singapore and China are more akin to a father in a family. This is very important, only politicians with real sense of responsibility would sacrifice themselves for the people. 10. It’s wrong to assume that democracy is only achievable with elections. In an electoral democratic country, how a citizen’s voice is heard is by the government? Every 4 or 5 years, citizens of a democratic country say: “I like you” or “I like someone else” in an election. That’s all. And there’s no guarantee the new government is better. In China, there’s a public feedback system via a hotline by dialing #12345, where the citizen could use for complains. An officer is assign for every case and the response is timed. All cases are recorded in a central database. Most of the time problems are solved in a few days. The unsolvable cases are analyzed in the background, if there are of high occurrence, a special task is set to look into the problem. The citizens will be called again after a specific time to check if their problems are solved. This way, the performance of each local government is accessed by the central government. This to me, is the new and advanced democracy for the 21st century. One which operates on a daily basis and one that listen to the specific needs of the people. This is a smart way, it allows the voices of the 1.4billion people to come through privately. Protests are disruptive to the society and the economy. In my country, the only channel we show our frustrations about the government is when chitchatting with friends in a coffee shop. 11. In Singapore and China. The government controls capitalism. While in many democratic countries, capitalism controls the government. Look at how the corporates have hijacked the political system in America through “revolving doors”. America is a corporate dictatorship where the Rich has TWO parties and the people effectively having NONE. 12. A government is more equipped with the knowledge of the domestic and international situation than normal citizens. They are more suited to make decisions than the people. People, especially young people and students, have limited knowledge of the real world, and easily misguided and instigated by foreign influence. Non Government Organizations (NGO) of the US, like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the British Mi6, have been funding oppositions in foreign countries to overthrow the governments that don’t conform to their interests. 13. There’s a wrong assumption that a democracy is less corrupted due to existence of check and balance mechanism. Singapore is totalitarian, but it has one of the cleanest governments in the world. Similarly, it’s untrue to assume the abuse of power only exist in a authoritarian system. My democratic country had a corrupted dictator for 22 years. Indonesia had a corrupted dictator Suharto for 3 decades. They won every election by buying votes and by controlling the media. It’s a misconception that the developed Western countries got rich because they had democracy. The West got rich because of the Industrial Revolution, rich resources from colonized countries in the past, science and technologies development, not because of democracy. 14. Most people think democracy means “people in charge”. It is not. Democracy is a way the rich divide and rule the people. By giving the right for the people to vote, the people are made to forget that they have one powerful tool: revolution. In a democratic system, after one party is changed, the money moves to the other side. The rich aren’t afraid of a democratic system. That’s why in school, we are indoctrinated with “democracy”, the teachers never taught us the conditions for a democracy to work, and they never mentioned the word plutocracy. In China, the government has to perform, for if they have done badly, a revolution awaits. And the country start anew. Just like we have seen throughout the history of China. 15. People said a single party system has no legitimacy. China has at least 93% support from the people, according to a survey by Harvard University in 2016, whereas democratic countries rarely hit above 60%. In the West, legitimacy is based on fulfilling electoral rules. For example, if a party wins by 51%, it’s legitimate. Even if in the following week the support rate drops to 0%, it’s still a legitimate government for the next 3 years and 51 weeks. In China, legitimacy is based on the RESULTS delivered by the government