he has real, actual, abusable power and democratic systems must limit any person’s access to abusable power, even if you believe there hasn’t been abuse yet.
This is the key part about what I’m saying. People are assuming Xi has absolute power when he doesn’t. His role in the assembly is basically being the figurehead. It’s the assembly that has power and passes laws and shit. But because its politics people use the no term limits thing as evidence that his power is absolute but they’re wrong. That’s why I used the grocer example. No one behaves this way with any other scenario but because it’s politics that must mean he’s a dictator and not that hey maybe if he’s doing a good job running the assembly the assembly should keep him in charge instead of swapping him for someone else to do the exact same shit. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
The Chairman of the Central Military Commission is the head of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the commander-in-chief of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the People’s Armed Police (PAP) and the Militia. The officeholder is additionally vested with the command authority over China’s nuclear arsenal.
Access to the nuclear arsenal seems like excessive power for a figurehead. Xi Jinping holds that office.
No that’s a separate role. That’s power he has because he’s in charge of the military. Every country has a guy in charge of the military is that guy the dictator of every country?
This is the key part about what I’m saying. People are assuming Xi has absolute power when he doesn’t. His role in the assembly is basically being the figurehead. It’s the assembly that has power and passes laws and shit. But because its politics people use the no term limits thing as evidence that his power is absolute but they’re wrong. That’s why I used the grocer example. No one behaves this way with any other scenario but because it’s politics that must mean he’s a dictator and not that hey maybe if he’s doing a good job running the assembly the assembly should keep him in charge instead of swapping him for someone else to do the exact same shit. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Access to the nuclear arsenal seems like excessive power for a figurehead. Xi Jinping holds that office.
No that’s a separate role. That’s power he has because he’s in charge of the military. Every country has a guy in charge of the military is that guy the dictator of every country?
The other countries have a term limit for who wields that power.