Hi, I’m looking for a country whose people or government mainly support my values. I’m looking for a country that:
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supports wildlife protection
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supports eco-friendly things and solar/wind energy
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supports freedom of expression and does NOT criminalize queer people, be it trans, gay, bi, pan, intersex, asexual, etc.
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peaceful, low crime
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community-oriented
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equal and just
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very friendly towards animals, filled with animal sanctuaries and no-kill shelters
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free education and/or healthcare (preferably education and healthcare are free/government-funded)
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high taxes are therefore fine to me
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compassion-oriented
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affordable food with low unhoused rates and high employment rates
But I’m neither a liberal nor declaring China isn’t doing some kind of socialism. It’s not a socialism I personally like but that’s my preference, I prefer the so called concordance democracy over a party system in general. The only country I know who are doing this often is Switzerland, but they have other issues (like high cost of living and xenophobia/lack of diversity).
Your framing of socialism is very liberal, such as conflating it with taxation in the boundaries of capitalism. If you don’t explicitly state what you are, I can only make assumptions, and thus cover my own bases. Switzerland for example is not socialist, but instead capitalist, and funds its safety nets through imperialism (same as Germany). Further, China is closer to a consensus-based democracy than Switzerland is due to the nature of the capitalist system in Switzerland, so I don’t really see your issue with China.
I didn’t state Switzerland is purely socialist, but that I prefer concordance democracy as a subtype of socialist democracy, which is the prevalent in Switzerland, in contrast to the type of socialism prevalent in China.
Obviously China is consensus based as there is only a single political party. But China does not employ concordance democracy, which I prefer to a single party system.
Can you please also define what “liberal” means to you?
China has 8 sub-parties that help guide state policy, they just don’t have equal footing to the CPC.
As for liberalism, by that I mean the kind of competition-focused, individualist, private-property supporting ideology backing capitalism. Liberal democracy focuses on competing parties all representing capitalist interests, which creates disunity instead of cohesion.